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Sweep Away Hungry Ghosts

2020 · 9 min

A quiet, dreamlike short that lingers in grief and strange imagery, asking you to sit with unresolved feelings.

Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Overview
Sweep Away Hungry Ghosts is the wishful reverie of a young Asian man as he struggles to come to terms with his deceased father’s transvestitism.
How it feels
Melancholic, eerie, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Grief, identity, family, memory
Content
Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Places
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror4
Humour1
Realism5
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

Cast

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Details

Genres
drama, fantasy, horror
Directed by
Hannah Palumbo, Linden Feng, Zhang + Knight
Written by
Hannah Palumbo, Linden Feng, Zhang + Knight
Starring
Takuro Hama Cheung, Ken Mai
Music
Jonathan Ng
Runtime
9 min
Country
United Kingdom

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