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The Sea Calls for Me

2021 · 17 min

A quiet, lonely drift through a coastal childhood, unsettling and tender, lingering on absence and small acts of care.

Overview
A young boy, Sura, lives alone and lonely in a fishing village. He earns money from chores while waiting for his father, who may never return. One day, he finds a broken sex doll washed ashore, and tries to fix it.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • family
  • grief
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • small town
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Tumpal Tampubolon
Written by
Nara Nugroho, Tumpal Tampubolon
Starring
Muhammad Umar, Dikky Takiyudin
Music
Yudhi Arfani
Cinematography
Vera Lestafa
Runtime
17 min
Country
Indonesia
Languages
Indonesian

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