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Fish Never Sleep

2021 · 23 min

A quiet, emotionally charged return home where unspoken illness and family history press in around a birthday celebration.

Directed by: Aida Martos, Gerard Gil
Genres: Drama
Starring: Berta Cascante, Adriana Fornés, Raül Ferre

Overview: Arlet returns home, after being away for four months, to celebrate her twentieth birthday. This reencounter with her past, and with her family, turns the weekend of celebration into a process of coming to terms with a disease that has been haunting them for years.

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Directed by: Aida Martos, Gerard Gil
Genres: Drama
Starring: Berta Cascante, Adriana Fornés, Raül Ferre

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: family
grief
identity
healing
memory
Places: home
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Aida Martos, Gerard Gil
Written by: Ramon Company, Anna Calderón
Starring: Berta Cascante, Adriana Fornés, Raül Ferre, Mercè Pons
Cinematography: Gerard Blanch
Runtime: 23 min
Country: Spain
Languages: Catalan

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