““Loralai” has all the trappings of an assassin movie - sleek guns and black leather, orders issued from an unnamed power, a boy’s club sensibility - yet the short manages to tell a complex, unexpected story about guilt, loyalty, and redemption. Loralai is the titular assassin who (until the end of the film) does not utter a word. Though she dispatches her targets with seeming stoicism, we see her humanity in the origami animals she folds - one for each person she has killed. Likewise, at the end of the short, we watch as Loralai weighs an excruciating decision: follow orders, or save someone she cares for deeply. It is this unexpected compassion, the adoring
relationship she has with her mentor, that transforms this film from “trope” to something much deeper. Emotionally and visually rich - vivid images cut into the principal narrative; paper animals swept away by waves, night falling on Paris - “Loralai” is a pleasure to watch.”