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Origami

Directed by Jemma Gross

Starring Pearl Mackie, Nicholas Pinnock

Hope. Conceal. Protect.

A grounded sci-fi short about a mother whose belief in justice and a fair society is tested when those she loves are put at risk. Origami is set in a present day dystopian world. One where a growing number of young people are born with an ability that is wrongly deemed a threat to wider population. For this they are relentlessly persecuted. This is the story of one mother’s attempt to save her son.