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Crybaby

Carys stands with her arms folded, an angry multi eyed scabbily monster leers in through a door.
At school, Young Carys looks up from her drawing
Teenage Carys is writing a letter, her friend sits on the desk and is helping.
Carys is desperate, she is trapped in a land of boxes, and an angry multi eyed squiggly creature is just behind her.

Synopsis

CRYBABY is a deeply personal animated short by Welsh filmmaker Eleri Edwards, created through Ffilm Cymru’s Beacons scheme and produced by Biggerhouse Film, a company dedicated to amplifying marginalised voices. Drawing on her own experiences of late-diagnosed autism, Edwards crafts an intimate portrait of self-discovery, memory, and the struggle against internalised negativity.
The film follows Carys, a 24-year-old woman packing boxes as she prepares to leave her parents’ house. What begins as a simple act of moving soon dissolves into an otherworldly landscape where she is overwhelmed by endless boxes and the haunting weight of her past. Lurking in the shadows is Carys’s internal voice, brought to life as an angry, chaotic scrawl of pencil scribbles - an embodiment of self-doubt and internalised stigma.
As she sorts through the fragments of her childhood, memories of early school days and teenage sleepovers resurface, revealing the pain of exclusion and misunderstanding that shaped her. The 2D animation shifts fluidly between reality and imagination, capturing the turbulence of Carys’ inner world.
CRYBABY is both a personal reckoning and a universal story - an exploration of autism, mental health, and the fight to silence the critic within.

Details

Year
2025
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
11:00
Format
HD 1080P
Director
Eleri Edwards
Producer
Tom Stubbs
Co-Producer
Stephen Clarke
Executive Producer
Jude Lister, Jessica Cobham-Dineen
Editor
Tom Stubbs
Screenwriter
Eleri Edwards
Production Designer
Gabriella Ball, Kathryn Chorley
Sound
Dai Shell,
Composer
John Meirion Rea
Principal cast
Mairwen McGowan,Lucy White, Lindsey Spellman, Eleri Edwards, Michael Smith
Other Lead Creative(s)
Dani Abram
Animator
Seyhun Cho
Animator
Marcia Rojas
Animator
Matthew Lee
Kickstarter Co-ordinator
Mike Scrase

Genre

Disabilities Drama Thriller Welsh

Categories

Animation

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Biggerhouse Film CIC

26 Northload St
Glastonbury
Somerset
BA6 9JJ

Sales Company

Tom Stubbs

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