An obsessive mother, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A father, carefully blotted out from all the family photos and a dreadful child-psychiatrist with unconventional methods - This is the summary of young Hazel's life, secretly attracted to boys...
Direction
Ruggli compresses a feature's worth of dread into 8 minutes.
Editing
Rapid-fire photo manipulation that reveals the father's erasure.
Acting
Mori's silent longing speaks volumes in glances.
Director
Tamer Ruggli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2012, this Swiss short anticipated conversations about conversion therapy's psychological damage years before mainstream discourse caught up.
The title 'Hazel' deliberately evokes 1950s American suburban innocence — the same era that produced brutal psychiatric 'treatments' for homosexuality.
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