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Frybread Face and Me

2023 · 82 min

A gentle, sun-warmed summer of small discoveries, quiet humour and family bonds that leaves you feeling quietly moved.

Overview: Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.
How it feels: Warm, earnest, melancholic and light. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Coming-of-age, family, identity, memory
Content: Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
lightstrength 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: coming-of-age
family
identity
memory
healing
Places: countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none