Don't PANIC - experiencing Pain is the Human Condition but so is experiencing Joy

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There is a quiet kind of strength in choosing to be seen — fully, honestly, without the armour. Vulnerability isn’t weakness — it’s the wild, trembling courage of being real, of letting others witness the parts of us we usually keep hidden. And in doing so, we begin to gather up the forgotten pieces of ourselves.

In those tender moments of openness, something begins to shift. We stop holding our breath. We find ourselves softening into the present, no longer bracing against life but moving with it. Being human is not about flawlessness, but about presence — about showing up, cracked and luminous, for whatever the day brings. The cracks let the light in, yes — but they also let us out, more whole, more alive, more deeply connected to what truly matters. This is where the real beauty lives — not in the polished edges, but in the raw, unguarded places where we finally let ourselves be known.

Featuring Jane Kennedy ()
Filmed in Sedgefield, South Africa

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Filming - by Michael Raimondo
Editing - by Justine du Toit
Sound mix - by Tamryn Breakey-Volschenk
Colour grade - by Daniel de Villiers

The following music tracks are used in this film:
Dawn - by Yehezkel Raz (via ArtList)
Laila - by Pia Maya (via ArtList)
Water Colours - by We Dream of Eden (via ArtList)
Crayons - by Silver Maple (via Epidemic Sound)
Sweet Dreams, Sunray - by 369 (via Epidemic Sound)
I Did Find You - by Moulins (via Epidemic Sound)
But I Flow - by Sayuri Hayashi Egnell (via Epidemic Sound)

A huge thank you to these guys, who gave so generously of their to time to help with translations, enabling us to provide subtitles in the following languages:
Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) - by Shun-Ying Lu
Croatian - by Davor Bobanac
Czech - by Katarína Božek
Dutch - by Karla Greven
English - by Justine du Toit
French - by Amélie Macoin
German - by Tanja Pütz
Greek - by Vicky Polychroni
Indonesian - by Ary Nuansa
Italian - by Grazia Gironella
Korean - by Hotae Devin Noh
Macedonian - by Lidija Pusevska Markovska
Polish - by Anna Konieczna
Portuguese - by Sibylle Steinpass and Lucivani Valvassori
Slovak - by Zuzana Beratsova
Slovenian - by Tadej Pasar
Spanish - by Paty Aguirre
Vietnamese - by Tam Do

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