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Land of Ashes

2020 · 82 min

A quiet, dreamlike drift through a girl's grief, where everyday life and imagination blur into something tender and strange.

Directed by
Sofía Quirós
Genres
Drama
Starring
Smachleen Gutiérrez, Humberto Samuels, Hortensia Smith
Overview
Selva, thirteen years old, discovers that when we die we just shed our skin. We can turn into wolves, goats, shadows, or anything as long as your imagination allows it.

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Directed by
Sofía Quirós
Genres
Drama
Starring
Smachleen Gutiérrez, Humberto Samuels, Hortensia Smith
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
82 min
Country
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Languages
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