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Aningaaq

2013 · 7 min

A quiet, intimate conversation across a vast distance, mixing warmth and melancholy as two strangers share small, ordinary details while death looms.

Directed by
Jonás Cuarón
Genres
Drama
Starring
Orto Ignatiussen, Sandra Bullock, Lajla Lange
Overview
Aningaaq, an Inuit fisherman camping on the ice over a frozen fjord, talks through a two way radio with a dying astronaut who is stranded in space, 500 kilometers above Earth. Even though he doesn't speak English and she doesn't speak Greenlandic, they manage to have a conversation about dogs, babies, life and death.

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Directed by
Jonás Cuarón
Genres
Drama
Starring
Orto Ignatiussen, Sandra Bullock, Lajla Lange
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 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
  • isolation
  • death
  • survival
  • family
  • identity
Places
  • wilderness
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity3
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Jonás Cuarón
Written by
Jonás Cuarón
Starring
Orto Ignatiussen, Sandra Bullock, Lajla Lange, Maligiaq Fredeik, Lange Siegstad
Music
Steven Price
Cinematography
Alexis Zabé
Runtime
7 min
Country
United States of America, United Kingdom
Languages
English, Inuktitut

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