"DON'T OPEN THE DOOR. DON'T OPEN YOUR DREAMS."
A child finds a spellbound book on her way to school. The strange book foretells a murderous tiger coming to kill them and everything in their path.
Social & External
Child
Tiger
With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.
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