The Physics of Sorrow full movie. Animation film in Disney Hotstar+

The Physics of Sorrow

2019

27 min

Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.

Animation

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