amma, do giraffes cry (2026)
Directed by Kartikeya Saxena
Production: Kartikeya Saxena/FAMU (India, Czech Republic)
Short Documentary (26 mins)
Far away from home, an Indian filmmaker calls his zoologist mother from the Prague Zoo. As he describes the mysterious lives of the captive animals he observes - a gorilla scared of cameras, an insomniac anaconda and penguins haunted by their own shadows - the zoo becomes a space for their memories to materialise. The distance between mother and son, human and animal evaporates, and the zoologist confronts a long held belief.