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Remote

2022 · 89 min

A slow, eerie plunge into digital isolation, where the line between game and reality blurs in a sealed-off apartment.

Directed by: Mahyad Tousi, Mika Rottenberg
Genres: Drama, Science fiction, Mystery
Starring: Okwui Okpokwasili, Pooya Mohseni, Nikita Tewani

Overview: Finding new cinematic language to express the desire for physical contact in our increasingly isolated, mediated, and highly consumer-driven environments, Remote follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.

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Directed by: Mahyad Tousi, Mika Rottenberg
Genres: Drama, Science fiction, Mystery
Starring: Okwui Okpokwasili, Pooya Mohseni, Nikita Tewani

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
satiricalstrength 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
technology
identity
loneliness
obsession
Places: big city
home
Era: near-future
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, science fiction, mystery
Directed by: Mahyad Tousi, Mika Rottenberg
Written by: Mahyad Tousi
Starring: Okwui Okpokwasili, Pooya Mohseni, Nikita Tewani, Antonia Predovan, Joony Kim, Hee-Wan Kwon
Runtime: 89 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English, Faroese, Korean, Spanish

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