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ANIMATED SHORT FILM · 2025
How Spiders Learned to Fly
My role — Composer & sound designer
An elderly woman is faced with a choice: confess her feelings to the man of her dreams, or be turned into a spider.
About the film
A new kind of fairytale, a poem, and the bittersweet message: there is no “end”. Accompany the unlikely heroine, Marie, on her quest to fulfil her destiny and yet defy fate. This surrealist animated short blends comedic dialogue with a poignant visual style reminiscent of vintage footage.
Voice cast
- Frederick
- Jerome Barnett
- Marie
- Gale van Cott
Crew
- Director
- Lara Schmitz
- Art director & line producer
- Lara Schmitz
- Assistant director
- Yelyzaveta Lidova
- Visual development
- Adelen Holt, Yelyzaveta Lidova, Marta Pawlowska, Niki Pangelova
- Writer
- Yelyzaveta Lidova
- Lead animator
- Niki Pangelova
- Producer
- Marta Pawlowska
- Animators
- Lara Schmitz, José Santana, Adelen Holt, Corina Bojan, Yelyzaveta Lidova
- Music & sound design
- Efthymios Stavropoulos
- Background art & compositing
- Lara Schmitz