North American Premiere
Director Julia Mellen animates and celebrates the termination of her pregnancy with an unexpected array of guests.
Spain
2025
English
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Producer
Julia Mellen
Screenwriter
Julia Mellen
Cinematography
Julia Mellen
Editor
Julia Mellen
Julia Mellen
Julia Mellen is a Brazilian American filmmaker living in Madrid. Her first film was Yung Lean, Please Be My Yung Love (2018), which was shown at the London Short Film Festival and Metrograph Theater in NYC, among others. Mellen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and later interviewed alongside Jodie Mack for Metrograph at Home.
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