Auteur animation fans can unwrap a special gift next month when Signe Baumane’s My Love Affair with Marriage debuts as an OVID Exclusive. The art cinema streamer will premiere the independent feature film on Friday, December 20.
Synopsis: Zelma navigates through a series of romantic encounters, each one shaping her understanding of love and marriage. With unflinching honesty, she grapples with the conflicting forces of passion and disillusionment, her own desires, fears, and insecurities, painting a raw and intimate portrait of the human heart.
Written and directed by festival favorite filmmaker Baumane (Rocks in My Pockets, Teat Beat of Sex, Birth), My Love Affair with Marriage features the voices of Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) as Zelma, Matthew Modine (Stranger Things, Oppenheimer) Cameron Monaghan (Shameless) and Stephen Lang (Avatar).
The film won numerous honors following its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, including a Jury Distinction from Annecy; feature film grand prizes at the Animafest Zagreb, Anim’est, Anifilm, Fredrikstad, Bucheon, New Chitose Airport and Viborg animation festivals; three awards from the Latvian National Film Festival (Best Animated Feature, Director and Production Design); and a nomination for the European Animated Feature Film prize at the European Film Awards.
My Love Affair with Marriage is one of 14 new exclusive films premiering on the OVID platform throughout December. OVID is offered online at ovid.tv and is available for Android, iOS, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku and Samsung Smart TV.
Animation lovers can catch other award-winning and critically acclaimed animated features on OVID, such as Kihachiro Kawamoto’s The Book of the Dead, Sebastien Laudenbach’s The Girl without Hands, Joann Sfar’s The Rabbi’s Cat, Marc James Roels & Emma De Swaef’s This Magnificent Cake and Aurel’s Josep, as well as classic titles like Bill Plympton’s The Tune and Jan Švankmajer’s Faust, retro gems like Delta Space Mission and The Story of Hong Gil-Dong, and short film collections.
