Letter to a Pig

Tal Kantor's "Letter to a Pig" is a haunting short film about an elderly Holocaust survivor recounting his escape from the Nazis to a classroom full of bickering students who are unaware of just how grave the situation was. He talks about how his life was saved by a pig, and proceeds to read a letter he wrote to the pig in gratitude.

With its expert handling of the heavy subject matter, and the extra care for nuance, this short film delivers with beautiful animation, an ambiguous yet resolute statement on generational trauma. With a keen script and a fittingly unconventional style of animation, this short film provides more in its 16-minutes of runtime than we could have expected.