Disney’s heartbreaking new short film earns its content warning

The content warnings Disney puts in front of its streaming content have drawn controversy in the past, for everything from the exact wording of warnings to what does or doesn’t get an alert. But Disney Plus’ new animated short, Versa, fully earns the “sensitive content involving loss and grief” warning that precedes it. The short, about two cosmic beings mourning after their child dies in utero, is emotionally intense and built around heartbreak. It’s a particularly personal project for writer-director Malcon Pierce, who explains in a live-action prologue that he wrote the short after he and his wife similarly lost a child due to a complication with her pregnancy.