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Iris Prize Shorts 2017
The Nettle (Kopriva)
DIRECTOR:
Piaoyu Xie
RELEASE YEAR:
2017
Czech Republic / China, 22 mins
Nikola is about to join his girlfriend at her father’s house for a summer holiday, but after wearing makeup for the very first time, he begins a startling and life-changing process of self-discovery.