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EISEN

18 min

A quiet, fog-bound documentary that drifts between bleak townscapes and displaced lives, asking patience and leaving a lingering chill.

Overview: A foggy landscape with new buildings in Eisenhüttenstadt at the German-Polish border: “Eisen”, Iron, that’s how they call the town here. Portraits of asylum seekers from all over the world are set among impressions of a dreary life in a strictly composed sequence of images.

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
immigration
identity
survival
Places: small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	1
Humour	0
Realism	10
Romance	0
Tension	3
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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