HANGING BY A THREAD

WHAT IF WE CUT IT?

DETAILS

24min · documentary · 2025 · 16:9

LOGLINE

Three women of a family gather daily together for sewing, without being aware that they are dangerously handling the threads of their own destiny. Life and death create a weave, where the missing threads are hardly noticeable.

AWARDS

S.O. Festival Cine Documental ALCANCES
S.O. Festival Cine Independiente L'ALTERNATIVA
S.O. ALGUILAR FILM FEST
S.O. CINEMÍSTICA
S.O. Cortos Cali
S.O. VÓRTICE FF
S.O. Independent Hungarian Film Festival Fggetlen Magyar Filmszemle

CATÁLOGO ICAA

SINOPSIS

What appears to be a study of the everyday life of three women, filled with familiar gestures in a warm domestic setting, turns into a quiet drama of absence and the need for continuity.
Every spoken word takes on an almost premonitory meaning. How does the course of time change when we decide to cut the thread?

STATEMENT

The death of a 90-year-old mother has been told many times, but Hanging by a Thread observes the relationship between her and her daughters as they gather to sew. Subtle family conflicts erupt with her sudden death, and every ordinary word reveals a premonitory meaning. The film explores how words stitch time, like a sewing machine, and how that gesture connects with cinema as a creator of time.

STILLS

TRAILER

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

CELIA DE COCA

For more than fifteen years, Celia de Coca has turned the intimate into a political expression, creating documentaries that work as tools for thought. She has developed a personal language that explores the female universe, the emotional territory, and the mechanisms of representation in contemporary culture.
A member of DOCMA and CIMA, she narrates with a thoughtful style that gives shape to matter in order to rethink how we relate to the world around us. More on her website.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

Wood for this Fire (2025) – Documentary feature film

More than Public Affairs (2024) – Documentary feature film

Hanging by a Thread (2024) – Documentary short film
Official Selection: Alcances Doc FF (Spain), Vórtice FF (Colombia)

Let’s Talk, Sister (2022) – Documentary short film
Winner: Impact Docs Awards (USA)

Official Selection: Berlin Short FF, London Director Awards, NYC Independent FF, Barcelona Indie Awards, among others

Over a Million (2020) – Documentary short film
Shortlisted: Womentime, Dona’m Cine