Dolor (2019)

This unique animation film is created by a single artist, Dotan Moreno, who only used three colors – yellow, black, and white. Sad middle-aged women with long black hair – which they even decorate their rooms with, using it like garlands – are dancing, with colorful houses in the background (in order to create this film, Moreno traveled to Cadiz in Andalusia, Spain). This film features an introduction from a series of songs that Sephardi Jews have for all life events, sang in Ladino. The film’s name – Dolor – is translated as ‘pain or sadness,’ and we can assume that it means a lament song about the death of someone dear. At the same time, the song symbolizes a journey down memory lane and a poetic farewell to a lost world – a reference to the Jews being exiled from Spain in 1942, when the Ladino language appeared.