Short film

The Beads

2023 · 18 min

A quiet, tense, intimate watch that lingers on care and unease, with an undercurrent of dread.

Overview: Two young women retreat to a remote holiday home. While one of them undertakes a medical abortion, the other quietly cares for her. A snake slithers around them, unnoticed.
How it feels: Tense, melancholic, eerie and warm. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, friendship, trauma, healing
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 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
friendship
trauma
healing
survival
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild