Your sister gets a new face and your childhood gets an audit. Family baggage: the short film.
Until the age of nine, Matan never knew his older sister had a rare syndrome. When she chooses to undergo plastic surgery to change her syndrome-induced appearance, it sets him on a 15-year journey to reexamine their childhood and the bond they shared.
Direction
Director excavates his own childhood with surgical precision
Editing
18 years collapse into 18 minutes—devastating economy
Writing
Narration that interrogates rather than explains
Director
Matan Tal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Williams-Beuren syndrome creates distinctive facial features and extreme sociability—Shira's choice to alter her appearance raises uncomfortable questions about who disability accommodations are really for.
Director Matan Tal was only 24 when this premiered, making the 15-year scope of the film nearly his entire conscious life.
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