Thirteen minutes is all If Anything Happens I Love You needs. This 2020 animated short from the United States, directed by Will McCormack and Michael Govier, follows two parents in the silence that settles over a home after a school shooting takes their daughter.
What is If Anything Happens I Love You about?
A mother and a father move through the rooms of their house, barely able to look at each other. The ordinary objects of family life, a kitchen, a bedroom door, a shirt left behind, now carry a weight neither of them can put down. The film stays close to the two of them as grief pulls them apart and, slowly, as the memory of the child they lost begins to draw them back toward one another. There is no mystery to solve and no villain to confront; the subject is the void left behind after a school shooting, and whether a marriage can survive inside it. The title itself is a message, the kind of thing a child might say on the way out the door, and the film builds its emotional arc around what those words come to mean afterwards.
About the cast
The short carries no credited on-screen cast in the catalogue; it is an animated piece in which the figures on screen are drawn rather than performed. The creative credit belongs to its two directors, Will McCormack and Michael Govier, who wrote and shaped the film together.
Context & significance
If Anything Happens I Love You sits in a category K-Time rarely carries: the animated short aimed squarely at adults. Classified as animation, drama and short, it comes from the United States and dates from 2020. Its subject, the aftermath of a school shooting, is one American filmmaking has returned to repeatedly, but the short form changes the approach. With only thirteen minutes, there is no room for backstory, procedure or public debate; the film narrows its focus to a single household and the two people left standing in it. Animation lets the directors render emotion as shape and shadow instead of dialogue and performance. Viewers should know going in that the subject matter is heavy and that a brief running time does not make it light.
Watching If Anything Happens I Love You on Ktime
The film is available on K-Time in its original English-language version; the catalogue does not list a Persian dub or Persian subtitles for this title. Reading this page is free, and watching requires a login with a K-Time account. The Farsi interface makes it simple to find for Iranian viewers abroad.