SXSW

ANIMALS

By | March 2014

2014 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE COMPETITION SELECTION! Breaking free from the lack of realism or overdone moral messages that have sunk similar films, Schiffli and writer/star David Dastmalchian focus on character, defining the arc of two people who think they’re the only thing keeping one another alive but may be doing more to drag each other down than they can possibly know…

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