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The Third Shift

90 min

A quiet, unhurried chamber drama where old memories and buried resentments slowly surface, making a pretty hometown feel increasingly brittle and close.

Directed by: Ana Opačić
Genres: Drama
Starring: Senko Velinov, Iskra Veterova, Jelena Jovanova Perikj

Overview: Accompanied by his wife, an aging music professor travels to his picturesque childhood hometown in order to collect his nerves after a tragic breakdown. However, upon the couple's return, nostalgic memories of all kind will trigger an equal amount of tension and happyness, with the idyllic circumstances turning more and more fragile and reaching a breaking point upon the arrival of Maša, the professor's estranged daughter from his first marriage.

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Directed by: Ana Opačić
Genres: Drama
Starring: Senko Velinov, Iskra Veterova, Jelena Jovanova Perikj

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
memory
grief
aging
identity
Places: small town
countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	5
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Ana Opačić
Written by: Ana Opačić, Slobodan Trajkovski
Starring: Senko Velinov, Iskra Veterova, Jelena Jovanova Perikj, Draško Zidar, Petar Mirčevski, Boris Čorevski, Borče Načev, Dušica Stojanovska
Cinematography: John Craine
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Croatia
Languages: Macedonian

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