ALMA's Summary : A Short Movie

On a cold and snowy day, a little girl walked on a street between two big buildings. It was a quite day and no one seemed to be outside except her. The little blondegirl with her green eyes wandered around the street happily. Her grey beanie and her pink jacket didn’t bother her moves at all. Then she found a black wall with hundreds of names on it. With a stick of lime she wrote down her name on the wall. Her name was Alma.

From a wide display of a store behind her, something was moving. was now standing on the table.

Alma turned her back and saw a doll that exactly looked like her. She came closer to the shabby store and she made sure that the doll was really the same like her. Suddenly, the doll was disappeared. Alma tried to find the doll, she peeked closer to the store.

She was a little bit surprised that the doll could move, but she also felt very happy to see the doll again.Wanted to get that doll, she tried to open the door. She turned the doorknob, but it was nothing. She felt very annoyed, tossed the door and began to walk away from the store.

Magically, the door opened by itself right after that.

She came inside to the old store, and the door behind her started to close. Unexpectedly, Alma stepped on a little doll that looked like a boy who was riding a bicycle. She returned the little doll on its position, and it run away to the door. Unfortunately, the door was completely closed, but still the little was trying to get out of the store.

After she paid attention the little door, the doll that exactly looked like her was disappeared again. Alma attempted to get the doll. She searched the doll under the table and a chair. She finally found her doll on a shelf, standing with many other dolls. She began to climb a chair to reach it.

She didn’t look scared, even everything around her was strange. She felt very excited, she put off her gloves and touched the doll.

Something was happened, she saw around  the store but she couldn’t move. Now her soul was trapped inside od the doll’s body.

 The other dolls were looking at her. At the end, behind the store’s display, a new doll was rising and ready to get another Alma.

 

#Alma is a 2009 Spanish computer-animated short film produced by ex-Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas.