EXCLUSIVE: WarnerMedia OneFifty has picked up this year’s Oscar-nominated live action short, The Dress from Polish filmmaker Tadeusz Lysiak.The short will stream exclusively on HBO Max this month.
Łysiak, who wrote and directed the short, is a student at the Warsaw Film School.The Dress centers around short-statured protagonist, Julia, who struggles with social rejection and bullying as she looks for love and intimacy while working at a roadside motel.
Julia doesn’t want to suppress her desire, sexuality, and longing for physical intimacy and when a handsome truck driver comes into her life, her unrealized fantasies begin to come true.
The short isn’t simply a love story, but a universal one about longing that affects everyone, regardless of the barriers and differences that divide us.
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