This 2024 short film comes in at 13-minutes and was directed by Rita Osei.
It starts with a back view of Aurora (Djinda Kane), stood on a bridge. The scene cuts to a woman (Melanie Gray) having an emotional response outdoors, sat on the floor. A couple of men watch her, but don’t help. Aurora is passing by and sees it. She goes to help but becomes distressed herself, she starts saying, not in English, that the woman needs help and then that she is just like Aurora.
She switches from helping to having what looks like an anxiety attack when her daughter, Sofia (Ella-Rae Smith), comes along. Aurora ends up biting her own wrist and drinking the blood. This seems to calm her. We see her awaken next to a man, possibly dead, with a bite on his neck and blood at her mouth. She goes to the toilet and vomits. But this is the start of a journey, one that Sofia is struggling to understand…
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The film sees Aurora in various states, upset, confused and even elated. We see an attack on another man during the running time to highlight the vampirism but, clearly, the film is trying to capture the impact of perimenopause – on her and on Sofia, as a caring observer trying to understand. This isn’t interpretive on the viewers part, Sofia googles perimenopause at one point. The use of vampirism I guess likens the beginning of this hormonal change to Othering the woman from a societal point of view.
The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
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