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The Calf

2022 · 15 min

A quiet, heavy slice of rural life that lingers on hardship and loss, asking you to sit with its sorrow.

Directed by
Mostafa Vaziri
Genres
Drama
Starring
Alireza Mehran
Tagline
Freedom is achieved through great pain.
Overview
Once upon a time in this dairy farm we had 400 cows and 100 calves. What are you doing with them? Now we have 40 cows and 10 calves. You even don't have mercy for the calves.

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Directed by
Mostafa Vaziri
Genres
Drama
Starring
Alireza Mehran
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • survival
  • isolation
  • family
  • morality
Places
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Mostafa Vaziri
Written by
Mostafa Vaziri
Starring
Alireza Mehran
Cinematography
Masoud Amini Tirani
Runtime
15 min
Country
Iran
Languages
Persian

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