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Listen Papa!

2019 · 13 min

A short, intimate confession that plays like a raw letter read aloud, mixing tenderness with old resentment.

Directed by: Tatyana Poliektova, Olga Poliektova
Genres: Animation

Overview: This is a letter of hatred and love of a son to his father, where he talks about everything that he could not say before.

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Directed by: Tatyana Poliektova, Olga Poliektova
Genres: Animation

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
grief
guilt
love
memory
Places: home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: animation
Directed by: Tatyana Poliektova, Olga Poliektova
Written by: Sergey Kupriyanov, Tatyana Poliektova, Olga Poliektova, Irakli Kvirikadze
Music: Jack Martini
Runtime: 13 min
Country: France, Germany, Russia
Languages: Russian

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