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Push It

2017 · 8 min

A short, quietly painful slice of adolescent longing where every attempt to connect lands wrong and the gym hall becomes a stage for small humiliations.

Directed by: Julia Thelin
Genres: Drama
Starring: Geneth Gurmu, Jeremiah Jeppsson, Per Lasson

Overview: Hedda tries to approach Adam in every way she can, but everything she does turns out wrong. And Adam gets to break all the rules. A film about never being able to win, even though you’re the best, with the gym hall as its arena.

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Directed by: Julia Thelin
Genres: Drama
Starring: Geneth Gurmu, Jeremiah Jeppsson, Per Lasson

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
identity
love
Places: school
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Julia Thelin
Written by: Julia Thelin
Starring: Geneth Gurmu, Jeremiah Jeppsson, Per Lasson, Emilia Azar, Olivia Bojang, Ronja Gudmundsson
Music: Jakob Lindhagen
Cinematography: Ragna Jorming
Runtime: 8 min
Country: Sweden
Languages: Swedish

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