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Toads

2019 · 86 min

A slippery, quietly unsettling documentary that blurs fact and fiction, asking you to piece together fractured memories and wonder what is real.

Directed by
Baltazar Tokman
Starring
Fernando Javier Cia, Vanina Denise Szlatyner, Daniela Cloé Ferrari
Overview
A stripper, a young trans man, the son of a drug dealer and the survivor of an accident reconstruct their memories as patients of Fernando Ventura, a scientist obsessed with genetic manipulation, in this documentary that plays with the boundaries of the genre in order to tell an amazing story.

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Directed by
Baltazar Tokman
Starring
Fernando Javier Cia, Vanina Denise Szlatyner, Daniela Cloé Ferrari
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    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • memory
    • obsession
    • isolation
    • science
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror3
    Humour2
    Realism6
    Romance2
    Tension4
    Darkness6
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Directed by
    Baltazar Tokman
    Written by
    Valeria Groisman
    Starring
    Fernando Javier Cia, Vanina Denise Szlatyner, Daniela Cloé Ferrari, Pedro Juliá, Alejandro Monno
    Runtime
    86 min
    Country
    Argentina
    Languages
    German, Italian, Spanish

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