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Ada & Naemi

2021 · 29 min

A quiet, intimate short about meeting a stranger who turns out to be family, carrying you gently through uncertainty toward something tender.

Overview
When Naemi decides to meet her father for the first time in 19 years, there's not only a journey into the unknown ahead of her, but also a half-sister she didn't know about yet.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • family
    • identity
    • coming-of-age
    Places
    None
    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
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension3
    Darkness4
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Directed by
    Wiebke Becker
    Written by
    Miriam Suad Bühler
    Starring
    Binta Sophie Camara, Joyce Mayne Sanhá, Katharina Dalichau, Michael Davies, Bernd Grawert, Yann Mbiene, Jobel Mokonzi, Lo Rivera
    Runtime
    29 min

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