Short film

To Get In

2014 · 30 min

A quiet, observant documentary that sits with anxious students as they wait for a life-changing exam, patient and gently sad.

Directed by: Anna Sarukhanova
Genres: Documentary

Overview: They’ve grown up and are ready to enter into a new world, in the anticipation of the exam to get in the Architectural Institute. The rest of life goes on in parallel, everyone has their own problems, their reasons to cry, to choke on grief. The line, which they have to cross, looms ahead.

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Directed by: Anna Sarukhanova
Genres: Documentary

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
education
ambition
family
grief
Places: school
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	0
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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