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Fontanel

2011 · 14 min

A quiet, uneasy short that lingers on a child's confusion, making an ordinary morning feel subtly off and quietly heartbreaking.

Overview
Twelve-year-old Koen's day, and with it his childhood, comes undone when he waits in vain one Saturday morning for his parents to take him to ice hockey practice. He wanders through the strangely empty house in his full hockey gear, bored. In order to kill time he jumps on his parents' bed and tries to scare his distraught older sister. Something seems to be amiss, but the precocious boy can't fathom what.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • isolation
  • coming-of-age
  • grief
  • identity
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Finn Szumlas
Written by
Finn Szumlas
Starring
Abbey Hoes, Monk Dagelet
Runtime
14 min
Country
Netherlands

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