FEATURE FILM｜MAGICAL REALISM・SURVIVAL THRILLER
The Red Shoes: Disobey
2026.03.05
A teenage dancer who misses her mother’s death splits into three selves — and must reunite them before her cousin commits her to a religious psychiatric institution to seize her inheritance.
Theme
When every system fails you, desire becomes a way to save yourself.
Inspired by the European fairy tale of the red shoes, the film explores desire as a life force — the body's refusal to surrender even when family, religion, and psychiatric institutions attempt to define it as madness.
Desire as life force / Self-rescue / Fragmented identity / Control and survival
Visual Tone
A dreamlike cinematic language blending magical realism, ritual imagery, and bodily symbolism.
Dance, religious ceremony, and psychological fragmentation intertwine to create a world where the body’s desire for movement becomes a form of resistance.
Status：Pre-Production
Expected Production：2028