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Foreigner

2020 · 19 min

A quiet, sunlit summer that slowly turns uneasy as grief and imitation blur into something unsettling.

Directed by: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Genres: Drama
Starring: Zoe Stein, Miquel Gelabert, Caterina Alorda

Overview: Spending her summer in Mallorca, Antonia comes to recognize the latent similarities between her and her dead grandmother and discovers a power over her mourning grandfather. She can't resist playing dress-up, but it becomes unclear who is inhabiting who.

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Directed by: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Genres: Drama
Starring: Zoe Stein, Miquel Gelabert, Caterina Alorda

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
darkstrength 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: grief
identity
family
memory
power
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Written by: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
Starring: Zoe Stein, Miquel Gelabert, Caterina Alorda, Carla Castañé, Marc Maas, Andreu S. Durán, Juan Manuel Rojas Curbelo, Sílvia Cerdà Vanrell
Cinematography: Alana Mejía González
Runtime: 19 min
Country: Spain
Languages: Catalan, Spanish

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