Crybaby
Synopsis
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
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Biggerhouse Film CIC
26 Northload StGlastonbury
Somerset
BA6 9JJ
Sales Company
Tom Stubbs
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