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No Nation

2025 · 16 min

A quiet, heavy short that sits with grief and ritual, asking you to feel the weight of a choice long after it ends.

Starring
Scott Williams
Overview
After climate catastrophe, a young woman makes a fatal choice during a tribal ritual, bringing her grief, her community’s traditions, and her relationship with her father into conflict.

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Starring
Scott Williams
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • grief
  • family
  • faith
  • survival
  • trauma
Places
  • countryside
Era
near-future
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour0
Realism6
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Starring
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Runtime
16 min

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