Release from Heaven

This unusual allegorical film follows a mythical hero who protects children and the defenceless across time. His heroic deeds are passed on from generation to generation in the form of thrilling tales. The adults tell them to their children to calm them down and take their minds off living in a warzone. We watch the legendary saviour through the eyes of a teacher from a war-torn country. Because of bombings, she has to flee a boarding school with the children. They find shelter in a cave where she tells the children the stories and where they find the first evidence of the hero’s real existence. Together with the children, the teacher travels through the warzone and finds more and more evidence. The more interested she becomes in the whole thing, the more she believes that the hero is not just a figment of her imagination, but a real person. After emigrating, she decides to make a comic book about the hero who accompanied her through her entire life. But she finds out that she doesn’t know anything about him apart from that he’s kind and courageous. (Anifilm)