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Against the Wind

2023

A quiet, aching watch that sits with two girls' longing and slowly tightens into something desperate and sad.

Overview: Léna and Lili are a pair of identical 14-year-old twins living in an orphanage. The twins are very attached to their mother, and they wait almost endlessly for their mother to visit them so they can spend some time together. But when their mother doesn't even arrive on the twins' birthday, the girls' initial anger slowly turns to despair. They can only think of one explanation: their mother is seriously ill. They come to a crucial decision: they will pull their mother out of the unknown...

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How it feels

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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
grief
isolation
coming-of-age
loneliness
Places: small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

All scales, 0 to 10

Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Flóra Chilton
Written by: Flóra Chilton
Starring: Noémi Smith, Nikolett Smith, Károly Kozma, Tamás Varga, Krisztina Nemes Papp, Álmos Osz-Tóth
Country: Hungary
Languages: Hungarian

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