LYSARA

LYSARA, The Queen of Crystal Wings, is a 5 minute AI-animated fantasy short film. In a frozen kingdom hidden inside a pinecone beneath the aurora borealis, Queen Lysara rules with wings of crystal, too beautiful and too heavy to fly. Each winter she watches the sky creatures rise without her to weave the Midnight Veil, a tapestry of stars that carries dreams to the sleeping world. After every remedy fails, she descends to the edge of her kingdom and surrenders. When a dying creature arrives carrying a dream about broken wings, Lysara makes a choice that costs her the most beautiful thing she owns, and gives her kingdom its first breath.
A poetic fable about the alchemy of surrender, and the discovery that what holds us down may be the very thing we were meant to give away.