Farewell - ESMA 2016

Les court-métrages les plus émouvants sont ceux qui parfois ne contiennent pas de dialogue, bravo à vous Esma. :)

Art is freedom for both sides...! 🎨☺️

Very beautiful, the act of letting the bird go is letting go to her unborn baby. Just like a baby, she created the bird, and though nurtured, it is weak to the "real world", so she lets them go to a better world ;-;

ils vont me faire pleurer, super court-métrage mes respects au créateur =)

I think it's wonderful that ESMA made story of misfortune in like a real life. We all don't get everything we want and it's actually better that way. Not saying the woman in the movie shouldn't have gotten a child,but it really shows that all is not lost. Not sure if anyone understands...

Magnifique. Y a pas d'autres mots!

Pour moi, vous avez atteint la perfection. C'est triste mais tendre, c'est émouvant mais ça se termine dans la joie, la progression des couleurs tristes vers le mur au paysage champêtre aux couleurs joyeuses est très esthétique... Pas de dialogues, juste de la musique, c'est universel. Bref, j'adore ! Merci

Sensibilité, beauté, émotion..... tous les ingrédients pour faire un court métrage d'une grande qualité..... bien loin de la violence et l'agressivité du cinéma de masse.... Merci pour cet agréable moment...

One of the most wonderful animated short stories i`ve ever seen for sure.

Excellent story ,and animation was magical! I felt I was there with her and felt her pain !! Bravo !

Pour avoir été touché personnellement par le deuil périnatal , votre vidéo est MAGNIFIQUE , et tellement représentatif. les larmes m'ont coulées . tellement réaliste mais tellement dur à faire ... Un grand Merci pour votre vidéo

This is beautiful. A women who suffered from a miscarriage, and a mystical bird came to life as the spirit almost of the child who had died, and she got to take care of that majestic bird, and she learned to let go even if it hurts to. This is so beautiful ESMA, it’s so heartwarming and touching I almost cried, this is beautiful and amazing ESMA. keep up the amazing work

J'en ai marre ! Pourquoi toujours aussi parfait !? de l'émotion sans modération ! Décidément, je ne m’arrêterai jamais de regarder vos court-métrages :3

I feel identified in a very caring and gentle manner. Thank you for this beautiful art

Ca me touche au plus au point et m'a rappeler de douleurs souvenirs......Le lâcher prise n'est pas toujours facile......Merci Esma xxxx

Une merveille absolue

At last... something with content rather than just hollow graphics. Thank You ...

I probably got this wrong, but here's my interpretation: As seen from the pictures in the beginning, she had a happy life as she had a seemingly loving husband and a baby to look forward to in the future. Although, we see the letters that could either indicate that her art was rejected (seeing as she was a passionate artist and had a little ticket [or something] for an art expo) or that her husband left for a reason, leaving her all alone with no one to share her life with. Furthermore, the empty baby crib illustrates that she had a miscarriage and lost her last source of possible joy. Hearing the children's laughter from outside saddens her as it only made her remember the baby she never had. However, one day, a spark of hope ignited as the bird illustration urges the woman to paint a beautiful scenery on the white wall. Notice that the crib was also white. White represents her loneliness and how empty she feels when she remembers the pain of loss from both her spouse and her baby. The bird guides her and encourages her to keep painting a wall. She accidentally gets paint all over the crib and she gets a strike of realization that her baby was no longer with her, showering her with sadness. The bird sees this but could not do anything until it grew because the pain was still too much for the woman to handle. As a result of her continuation of the painting, we can quite obviously see a deduction of the white hue--the difficult reality. Slowly, she gets over some of the hardships she faced, but still remembers the truth. Noticing this, the bird makes an effort to go to her side of the wall no matter the consequences. In the end, the bird (which we can now assume as a symbol for her baby) erases the paint from the crib as it knows that it would only bring her mother sadness if she continued to dwell on the past.) The bird looked weak and tired when it went to her side of the wall, which connects to her own emotions because it is so difficult for her to let go of her past. She soon finds out that the painted side of the wall had laughter, indicating that she managed to create that joy that was so clearly absent from her. Finally, for both her sake and the bird's, she decides to put the bird back where it belonged because she knew that holding on to the bird would only mean holding on to the burden that her poor heart had to keep. The bird hesitates, thinking that the woman still needed it's presence and company, but the woman finally ushers it on and lets go of both the bird and her pain, thus the title "Farewell." In the end, she finally sees her potential through her painting, which could indicate that she has moved on from the two letter theories stated before (either the pain of her husband leaving or the pain if rejection...or maybe even both.) She is finally able to move on. HOWEVER, analyzing from the end credits, this could be entirely wrong and could be interpreted as follows: her husband and baby could have left her, leaving the baby crib empty and leaving her all alone. At the end, however, she learns to let it go and finds out that she was pregnant again, giving her the motivation to keep doing what made her happy (painting) and even illustrating the bird as the sign of hope on the crib. She will soon be able to experience joy once more.

Merci et bravo à ESMA Movies pour me faire basculer dans une émotion et une poésie incommensurable...

tout simplement magnifique ... ❤