For those who didn't understand: The father and daughter got in a car crash. The room they were in was the place you go when you're on the edge of living and dying. The dad was being walked with by the nurse because he was getting better, and was going to live. However, he saw is daughter dying (her chasing the cat). The boat itself was death. That's why the inside was so bright. Her dad went into the light so his daughter wouldn't have to. Her dad sacrificed himself so she could live.

For those who are wondering what is happening the little girl and the guy were in an fatal car accident, but the dad sacrificed himself to save his daughter.

Wow... I was just browsing through my old Facebook conversations and I remembered how deeply this video touched me that I felt the need to share it with everyone when I was a kid. It's great to see it again after many years, although sadness is the strong point here, nostalgia was what I captured intensely this time...

This is a really beautiful video. It hits harder if you can relate to having to make hard decisions for your children. This video really impacted me. Also gotta give props for the art style and direction and musical score.

I think I understand this. Emi and her dad were going for a drive on her birthday (I assume because of the present). The dad wasn't paying attention and they got in car accident. They were both nearly dead when they reached the hospital. The cat came to Emi in the other world and led her to the waters edge, where the ferry and Death came to take her to the underworld. The father didn't want his daughter to die yet, so he took her place because, we all know that when Death comes, he won't leave until he gets a soul. He entered the ferry with Death and left for the underworld. Emi lived after that and grew to be a strong young woman, or something like that. I'm not quite sure what the nurse, butterfly, and cat were supposed to represent.

my dad died last month very suddenly due to a car accident. sudden death never occurred to me as something that really could happen. I'm only 13 and I wish he had stayed at least for my middle school graduation and see me grow up. tell your parents you love them and appreciate them because you are very lucky to have them

I remember watching this years ago. I finally found it again...this short traumatised me, I remember the night so clearly, I was crying so hard and it’s been in memory ever since.

era un niña cuando vi este corto por primera vez, hace años, hoy lo vuelvo a ver y todavia lloro viendolo, amo este corto

here's the story; the girl and the dad were in one car and they were in a car accident but the girl got injured but the dad survived so the doctors said the girl can survive but, with a transplant and the dad knew he would die giving her the transplant and so he did and the boat which was the death boat. As you saw the girl was about to go in which meant she was about to die but her dad comes and he goes into the boat which meant he gave her his organs or whatever got damaged in her and now the dad is dead and his daughter lives.

That's so touching It's like the butterfly was hope The cat was the illness And then the cat led her to death which is the boat And then instead of her going on the boat her dad used his life instead Like if you agree

I sat in my bed hugging my pillow just crying my eyes out for a good few minutes still crying now writing this is emotional and I want to say this is amazing wish I found this before and I really hope no one has to go trew this anytime soon this is a masterpiece

El amor de los padres es tan grande, siempre dan todo por sus hijos. Realmente triste el vídeo, pensar que muchos niños se quedan huérfanos, por favor valoren a sus padres para que después no sea demasiado tarde :c

my dad has been dead five years and i just made 13 three days ago i miss him and love him so much all the tears i have cried and cried again but maybe one day ill get to see you again.....

For the confused people:: Father and daughter were in a car crash. The woman in the suit was basically Life, trying to get the father back to his body and all, while the daughter was supposed to be the one to meet Death, the guy who was on the ship. The father saw his daughter making her journey to the afterlife, and he pulled away from Life and went after his daughter, then eventually traded his own life for his daughters. He couldn't live without his daughter by his side, since she was his joy, as shown by the flashbacks. Plus, she had her whole life ahead of her. So her father went with Death while the daughter went back with Life, where she finds out her father is dead in the hospital. The End.

translation of the phrase at the end: "the greatest gift one can give is the gift of oneself"

THIS!?! 13-14-15 YEARS AGO!?! NOW THATS- THATS INSANEEEE! THE GRAPHICS ARE INSANE- LOOKS LIKE THE BEGINNING OF HOW A MOVIE SUPPOSE TO LOOK LIKE- JUST A FEW MORE DETAILS, AND THE FRAPHICS WOULD BE JUST-

I cried from this ALOT because it made me realized how much I love my dad and one day he's gonna run out of time

If anyone wants to know this is exactly what happened (based off the video): The girl and her dad were in a car accident, and the girl almost died (near death experience) the whole video was a representation like The butterfly meaning life and the cat meaning death. The boat and the guy with the glasses represented the grim reaper taker her to Judgement. But her dad saved her life which meant he died (that is why you saw his cloths at the end of the video) also when you saw him look sad before boarding the boat he was sad for leaving his Daughter. The nurse was with her all the time that's why she was in the representation. Hope this helped!

en gros, pour ce qui ne comprennent pas, la partie de la vidéo qui est avant l'entrée de la petite à l'hopital n'est qu'une représentation de son coma 😢, son père qui suivait l'infirmière, qui représente la vie, était en train de se faire réanimer, sa fille suivait un chat qui la conduisait jusqu'à ce sombre bateau qui représente la mort. Le père a sauvé sa fille en montant à sa place sur ce bateau. Très belle métaphore.

I really like the first 30 seconds of the video. That shattering effect is really beautiful and then the song leads into an incredible piano piece.

I'm going to try to figure this out: They were both in a car accident, and the gift is is the little girl, Emi, I'm guessing, that's her life. She needs a transplant, or something along those lines to live, and the father will die if he gives her his. The big area they're in is the station between life and death. So I suppose they're both in comas, or coma-like states. The woman with the dad is his angel, the cat is Emi's angel. The dad could have left Emi and go on to live, judging by the way the woman (or angel) was tugging on him to go. The cat was going to lead her to the way to death. So the dad takes her place and gives her life, the gift. The man driving the boat is God, or whatever you'd like to call Him. If she had gotten on that boat, she would have been taken from the Earth plane. The door the woman was trying to lead dad to was the way to the Earth plane. The dad took her place to save her from death. The box is life. . . . . Did I do okay? Just a silly American trying to interpret this French work of genius.

This all ways makes me cry so much. A dad will always saves his baby thank you dad!

i remember watching short films made by esma, nostalgia

I never cried so hard in my entire life..this Film is so breath taking and sad but also so beautiful..im so hurt rn..i watched this movie like 1 hour ago and am still crying

The moment I realised what was happening... I cried so loud. . .

ok... so I'm now crying on the bus on my way to class and strangers are staring at me. thanks 😢😂

Me: * *crying every single time I see this video* *

I really tried to stop crying at the end I couldn't take it my tears burst out

To all of u that didn't get it then I will explain it. A girl and her father and mother got in a car crash. The Father died to save the girls life. The cat is know for being death and the girl was chasing it. The boat signifies the after life. The man gets on the death boat to save the girl. Then it jumps into reality as the girl was waking up from her coma. And her mom shakes her head saying that her father didn't make it. And they go into the room.

Awww her dad died....i cried nearly for half an hour..

This is a beautiful film which means so much to me. My brother was diagnosed with PKD, Polycystic Kidney Disease. There is no cure except for a kidney transplant. Years ago when he was diagnosed the medical community thought that it was hereditary and it did not skip a generation so they had to do an emergency test on me to make sure I was okay. I was. I was 26 years old at the time and my brother was 3 years older than me. I was tested every year after that and still I did not get PKD. Then the medical community stated that if you do not get it by the time you are 40 years of age then you will never get it and it indeed did skip me, thankfully. When my mom called me to tell me that my brother's kidney's have failed and they were performing emergency dialysis I told her not to worry that I would donate a kidney to him...not knowing if this was even possible, somehow I felt it would happen. On July 15, 2014 I was in a kidney Paired donation Program at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta since my brother and I were not a match. Since I was AB Negative, which is a rare blood type, that pulled in an extra couple to swap with. On the same day there were 3 donors and 3 recipients swapping for family and loved ones. My kidney was flown from Atlanta to Mass General in Boston. My brother's kidney came from Tufts Medical center in Boston and the other pair swapped between Mass general and Tuft's medical center. I can honestly say it was the most joyful experience of my life and if I could do it all over again and magically grow another kidney I would donate in a heartbeat. If anyone here has watched this film and felt the tug at their heart to become a living kidney donor and would like to chat with me or just to ask questions, please feel free. I am happy to share my experience. Thank you for making this amazing film.

Para los que no entendieron... Padre e hija sufren un accidente de trafico y ambos quedan mal heridos, El gato es como un "guia" que va a llevar a la niña al inframundo "el barco" La mujer es quien atiende al padre y a la niña, incluso al final se ve que tiene una estrella de la vida en su ropa, Al principio va la mujer con el padre por que se supone lo va a salvar, sin embargo el padre ulle de la ayuda de la mujer, es decir da la vida por su hija, Por eso al final él se va en el barco y la niña se queda, La mujer al llevarse a la niña le "salva la vida" Por eso es que ella se ve junto a la niña cuando esta va en la camilla. P.D. En el papel que se ve junto a la ropa del padre de la niña (que médicamente se conoce como F.R.A.P.) Se lee Paciente: Emi Singer 8 años Causa de ingreso: Accidente de trafico Medico responsable: Dr. Daniel Diagnostico de ingreso: Traumatismo craneal Coma Exámenes complementarios: I.R.M. Encefalograma Diagnostico de salida de Urgencias: Experiencia de muerte inminente

after I saw this, I ran to my own dad and hugged him. I'm 11 and he's 41. I told him that I didn't want him to die. he said "I know, honey, but it's life. in order to live, you have to die."

I think that the place the father and daughter are in purgatory or like a waiting room for the dead. The boat resembles death. The daughter was killed In the car accident and the father survived. That's why the girl is being guided from purgatory to the death boat by the cat Mau who is an Egyptian god that resembles death and father is being guided by the woman who is an angel who is guiding him back to life. So when the father gets on the boat he is sacrificing him self to save the daughter. In other words the traded places.

I finally found it. I recall watching this video on the last day of either 2013 or 2014. It made me cry when I first watched. Now, eight to nine and a half years later, it still makes me cry. (I found this via the "I'm a pebble" otter animation they did. So glad I did!)

👍joliment dit, belle créativité, profonde, bravo à l'équipe, merci pour ce partage très touchant 🌹

Guys, the woman wasn't an angel. That was the girl's mother, perhaps representing the angel at the "port." Story- The father and the daughter were in a car crash. The father was supposed to live, but he did something, such as maybe turning the car so he would be hit harder than her at the last second or choosing to give up undamaged organs that she may have needed, etc, that caused him to die in his daughter's stead, saving her life. The woman, like I said, was the girl's mother, who was representing an angel at the port of death (which represented some sort of death waiting room). The surgeon-looking man and the cat were representative of some mythical grim reapers or gate keepers to the afterlife. The gift the father bought his daughter turned out to be the gift of life.

the feels i cried

SHORT FILM TRÈS EMOUVANTS, LES IMAGES, LA NARRATION.. 😪 LA PLUS GRANDE DOULEUR POUR DES PARENTS...C"EST DE PERDRE LEURS ENFANTS... PAR AMOUR...LES PARENTS DONNENT LEUR VIE...POUR SAUVER LEURS ENFANTS POUR QU"ILS PUISSENT CONTINUER À VIVRE...C'ST LE PLUS GRAND AMOUR QU"IL EXISTE! 💞💞 SHORT FILMS ...LA REALITE DE LA VIE!

*We are not human beings having a spiritual experience - we are spiritual beings having a human experience. The Bible explains this very clearly.*

FOR THOSE WHO DONT UNDERSTAND: the kids and her dad were in a car crash. The dad though that she died and followed the nurse witch in this movie, is a symbol of life and the boat is symbol of death. The girl followed the cat witch represents illness and led her to death. When the father sees his daughter, he ran after her to give her his life. One had to die (go on the boat) and one had to live (follow the nurse) The father chose death. This shows that you must love your loved ones because they can die any given moment.

ANYONE WANT TO CRY WITH ME?!!! THIS WAS SO SAD!!!! why'd she have to die...?! :'(

Beautiful! I saw another ESMA short with a Cat being a guide/guardian of the afterlife. Very well done!

Who watch this in 2020 your a legend

So Those Who Don't Understand And Find This Comment Is That The Little Girl And The Dad Were In A Car Crash, And The Little Was Dying And So The Dad Didn't Want The Little Girl Too Die, So He Died Instead, And Your Asking, "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BOAT AND THE WOMAN!!!" So The Boat Is Death And The Woman Was Pretty Much Life, But Really A Doctor Or Nurse. From What I Know Is That Maybe In Real Life That He Took Blood For His Daughter And Or Had His Heart Transformed Into Her, And That's How He Died Modern Speaking Instead Of Confusion And Stuff.

This is truly the saddest thing ever seen :(

I saw this video when I was 12 and it hurt so much to the girl I felt it was so real and the pain I experienced was real and painful and here I finally found this video again and I was sure the same feelings I had would flood me again and it did not happen so I probably grew up and innocence went at least some It's gone but I'm glad at least I got to watch it again it's an amazing and heartbreaking video

I'm watching this just after 10 yrs

im just sitting there the whole time praying the cat dont die..... like if you agree

Im the only one who cried watching this? QAQ

I Remembered I Watched This In Year 2015 When I Was Little But I'm A Teen Now Memories From 2015 😢

Très beau court métrage, très touchant.

So... After learning what the story of this was I may have grossly cried while making questionable howling/pained noises...

for symbolism or so? The nurse could mean the people trying to save their life (or one of them) The butterfly was maybe related to the girl's life, cause the cat scared it away and was guiding her to death... (So in a way, the cat is helping in leading towards death) In a weird sense, I am not sure how and its still weird... I don't know if I got it, so anyone can give it a guess

I forgot the last time I watched this...so sad 😢

I've been looking for this for a long time .

Am I the only one who got scared by this?? It's kinda creepy..

I love these kinds of animations. They look like they could be an actual movie, yet they are so short. What if they were an actual movie?

a sad and heart touching short film

I thank God first as well as thanks to the wonderful people who has made this it's very inspiring uplifting at the same time feeling sad 😪😢😭 I lost my daddy in November 1991 I don't know what day what I do know if I had a dream about them before they told me of course I was devastated at the same time he was trying to fight to get us back from foster care I really really like to thank you guys but I haven't still gotten over it I'm sure I will come to acceptance one day once again thank you God bless you and yours.

the dad died for his daughter...?

This brought me to tears. *clap clap clap*

I have not seen this in 10 or 11 years and I remember everything that happened 😢

Grande sensibilità sul tema dell'amore per i figli e della sua generosità senza compromessi ... oggigiorno i padri dimenticano i figli in macchina , oppure li dimenticano nella loro vita e basta ...un video che contiene un grande messaggio , bellissimo. Great sensitivity on the subject of love for children and his uncompromising generosity ... nowadays fathers forget their children in the car, or forget them in their lives and that's it ... a video that contains a great message, beautiful.

all aboard for the feel trip

One of my biggest fears is a sudden death and it didn't occur to me how that could be until 2 years ago. My father died at work. He was on a cherry picker (he was a contractor) and hit electrical wires. He was fried to death. I want to live a life with fun and adventure so if I do end up like my father, I can be satisfied with my life. But, I'm scared of my grandma (who I live with for the time being)who holds me back and makes me miserable every second of my life. I'm not bad at all. She hates teenagers. She likes babies and toddlers. I am too scared to even cross the street without her yelling at me. I get punished for looking ugly in public...help me. Please someone give me advice.

EMI : Expérience de Mort Imminente... je pleure à chaque fois que je vois ce court-métrage😭😭😭😭 Pour ceux qui n'ont pas compris, la fillette a été victime d'un accident de voiture, et l'accident pouvait tuer elle ou son père. Évidemment, le père choisit la mort, et l'on comprend le sens de EMI à la fin... très triste... je pense que les 👎 viennent des gens qui n'ont pas compris, et non du fait que ce n'est pas apprécié

My stomach dropped after I realized what the thumps were once I got older

...Who dare cut the onions in front of me?

This made me cry so much.....

No quiero que mi papá se muera 😭😭😭 daría la vida por ellos los ❤️😭 El padre del video es una buena padre que merece todo

Life is what you make it, so cherish the moments you have with the ones you care about .

Who else cried or about to cry after seeing this?😭😭😭😭

Oh my God, I'm in tears. For anyone who doesn't understand it: The woman in white meant life, the black cat and the ship meant death. The father and daughter got hit by a car. The daughter was going to board Death, as in die, but the father took her place. He was going to live. He chose his daughter instead.

I've been searching for this for many years

When i had a stroke last year I met the grim reaper and he said he wants to put my misery a stop but told him I want God's path for me and now on recovery

The present is life. The Feels when I found that out.

also the end says "The greatest gift that we can do is the gift of self..."

In case you don't speak French, EMI = Expérience de Mort Imminente (English: NDE = Near-Death Experience).

If only this could happen, my Yumegi and Kanade would still be here.

I'M GOING TO CRY IN A CORNER ANYONE ELSE WANNA JOIN?!

like si no entiendes el idioma de los otros comentarios por que hablas español (like)

Just the first minute I of watching i cried

Me encanto..q bueno q en la vida existen videos q t hacen reflexionar y despertar ese sentimiento q éste video t da😢

this has nothing to do with the video, but my mom died when I was 8. I see girls now, I'm 13, they say they hate their mothers and want them to die. to everyone who wishes death on someone, it's not right. I may have only been 8 at the time, but I understood that I would never see, or talk to her again. please, don't at you want your parents dead. If you have rhem, keep them around as long as possible, I wish i could have

She had a good father.

this is the saddest animation ive ever seen....I cried...

l am a donor.....l HOPE l give hope l die (when the time comes) to give LIFE.... to give HOPE and life... is the closest to playing GOD IS THE CLOSEST WE'RE GONNA GET.. ISN'T THAT THE MISSION?

The english subtitles are now available on "EMI"

This is just beautifull...

We're family, all of us. If we break apart, we have nothing left. - Rachel, Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)

Большое спасибо за объяснение видео. Очень грустно(

I believe that the story was that they both got into an accident, and the father chose to die for her so she could live, probably by donating an organ. The little green present he gave her may have symbolized the gift of life. The man and the boat and cat were "death", and the woman was the nurse who helped keep the girl from boarding the boat, aka dying.

at first I thought the girl died and the dad found a homeless girl that looks like his daughter

WoW le passage entre la vie et la mort c’est le bateau je vais de comprendre c’est tellement bien fais et c’est tellement triste bien joué à vous 👍👍

I was crying so much and is so sad 😭😭

El cortometraje se trata de una niña y su padre sufrieron un accidente automovilístico y a la niña se la esta llevando la muerte (representada por el gato) y el barco es la muerte pero el padre decidió dar la vida por su hija y se monto en el barco(la muerte) y se lo llevo, la niña sobrevivió gracias a su padre pero su padre murió :-( Moraleja:Nuestros padres y madres siempre darán la vida por sus hijos PD:hermoso cortometraje

Tears. Sad but very beautiful.

Esto si estuvo triste :(

I appreciated the allusion to Captain Charon and his woodbine packet across the Styx......