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Next

2017 · 15 min

A quiet, intimate coming-of-age short that sits with a girl's small but piercing sense of not fitting in.

Directed by
Luiza Campos
Genres
Drama
Starring
Amanda Delbone, Nina Medeiros, Antoniela Canto
Overview
At the age of twelve, Carol feels as if the world around her is all the same: Aunts and cousins, friends at School, women in stores, singers on the internet, everybody has straight hair. Except for her.

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Directed by
Luiza Campos
Genres
Drama
Starring
Amanda Delbone, Nina Medeiros, Antoniela Canto
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 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
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
  • family
  • race
Places
  • school
  • home
  • big city
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
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Luiza Campos
Written by
Maya Guizzo
Starring
Amanda Delbone, Nina Medeiros, Antoniela Canto, Vanessa Bruno, Georgina Castro
Runtime
15 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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