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How to Shoot a Ghost

2025 · 27 min

A quiet, haunting drift through an old city with two lost souls, equal parts sorrow and strange beauty.

Directed by: Charlie Kaufman
Genres: Fantasy
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki, Eva H.D.

Overview: Two newly dead young people meet in the streets of Athens, amid the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of history. One a translator, the other a photographer, they were outsiders in life; in death they struggle with the residue of their longings and mistakes. They wander the city together, finding consolation in the difficult beauty of existence and its aftermath.

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Directed by: Charlie Kaufman
Genres: Fantasy
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki, Eva H.D.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
isolation
identity
memory
grief
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	5
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	6
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: fantasy
Directed by: Charlie Kaufman
Written by: Eva H.D.
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki, Eva H.D., Argyris Pandazaras, Nektarios Souldatos, Felice Topi, Elisavet Tsoleridou
Music: Ella van der Woude
Cinematography: Michał Dymek
Runtime: 27 min
Country: United States of America, Cyprus
Languages: English

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