What if facing your greatest loss meant finally looking the lion in the eye? 🦁

"THE LION" by Abigail Zealey Bess (USA 🇺🇸), is a surreal dark comedy starring iconic actress Judith Roberts, known for David Lynch’s "Eraserhead" and Lynne Ramsay’s "You Were Never Really Here".

Katherine wins a Make-A-Wish contest. Her wish? To pet the lion at the zoo. What follows is an unexpected and cathartic adventure combining live action and stop-motion animation, where objects, photographs, dioramas and a tiny toy theatre come vividly to life.

Playful, strange and deeply personal, "The Lion" is ultimately a story about loss, confronting what frightens us and the healing power of telling our own stories. 💜

Abigail Zealey Bess is an award-winning filmmaker, theatre director and educator with more than 35 years of experience across film and theatre. Bess heads "Weird Sisters", developing film and theatre projects with a particular commitment to championing women artists and writers. She also teaches in the Graduate Film Program at NYU Tisch and at Columbia University. 👏


📅 Saturday, October 10 at 9.30pm
🎞 Short Film Programme: “Me, Myself & I”
📍 Kino Moviemento

🔥Join us for the 8th edition of the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin, October 7-11, 2026.

🎟 Get your tickets: https://moviemento.de/tickets/FemaleFilmmakers/

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