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Smoky Mountain

2020 · 20 min

A quiet, sobering short that follows a child's fragile new start with tenderness and a lingering ache.

Directed by
Albert Oriol
Genres
Drama
Starring
Lity Touch, Vatharo Yem, Sovanreach Cheat
Overview
Phom Penh, Cambodia, nowadays. Sony, a 10-year-old Cambodian kid working at a discharge, is thrown out of home by his father. Left on his own, he is fostered by an association that is allowing him to go to school and to discover a new way of living. Sony will quickly settle, but on the day of a school outing, he makes an unexpected discovery.

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Directed by
Albert Oriol
Genres
Drama
Starring
Lity Touch, Vatharo Yem, Sovanreach Cheat
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • politics
  • class
  • isolation
  • found family
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Albert Oriol
Written by
Albert Oriol, Stéphane Ly-Cuong
Starring
Lity Touch, Vatharo Yem, Sovanreach Cheat, Sveng Socheata, Sopheak Moeurn
Cinematography
Thomas Favel
Runtime
20 min
Country
France

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