Overview
- Disney Plus is now streaming Versa with a pre-roll notice for “sensitive content involving loss and grief.”
- Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, the wordless short uses dance and cosmic imagery to show a couple working through a pregnancy loss.
- Writer-director Malcon Pierce introduces the film with a brief live-action note that ties the story to his own family’s loss.
- Early coverage praises the craft yet stresses the weight of the subject, with Polygon urging adult viewers to watch but heed the warning.
- The film draws on kintsugi imagery—gold-filled cracks that leave repairs visible—which, paired with the warning, may rekindle debate over how streamers flag difficult topics.