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The Eating of an Orange

May Kindred-Boothby
United Kingdom, 2025, 7 min.

In English.
Includes nudity and sexual content.

AIFF Award Winner:
Jury Award for Creative Achievement

In a large manor house identical figures eat the same, move the same, look the same. But everything will change for one woman when she gets given an orange by an unknown figure. She has never seen an orange. In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm of lichens, slugs and sensuous fluidity. But how can she balance this with the world she knows? She must make a choice: abandon her discovery, or step forwards into a new way of being.

Director's Statement

The inspiration for this film came from my experience as a pansexual woman. The conventions around both gender and sexuality can play a massive and often unchallenged role in how, and with whom, we choose to express ourselves. The more I began unpicking the hoops that we are expected to jump through in the name of these conventions, the more absurd they became. So I wanted to make something absurd that challenged these narratives.

Category: Animation, Award Winner.

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