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Rule of the Heart

2024 · 65 min

A gentle, storybook-like animated fable that feels like a bittersweet fairy tale about finding feeling in a cold world.

Directed by: Roze Stiebra
Genres: Animation
Starring: Telma Izabella Balode, Ritvars Logins, Jānis Grūtups

Overview: A future husband has been chosen for Princess Alda; it is Prince Magnus. The King is getting ready for his daughter’s wedding and handing down the crown to his future son-in-law. Government ministers and advisors are making preparations for the royal nuptials. A circus troupe also arrive for the celebrations. A chance meeting between the Princess and a circus artist in the palace garden threatens to disrupt the wedding plans. The stranger gives the Princess a heart as a gift – because she does not know what that is. There is order in her father’s kingdom, and there is security – but no-one has a heart. The heart allows the Princess to talk with the grass, the trees and toads, and the silenced child inside her starts to remember her late mother. When the King discovers that, he gives an order to cut it out of her chest, but the royal husband-to-be hides the girl to fight for her new-found heart.

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Directed by: Roze Stiebra
Genres: Animation
Starring: Telma Izabella Balode, Ritvars Logins, Jānis Grūtups

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
grief
family
power
freedom
Places: fantasy world
single country house
Era: timeless
Audience: family
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action	3
Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	2
Romance	4
Tension	5
Darkness	5
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: animation
Directed by: Roze Stiebra
Written by: Matīss Gricmanis
Starring: Telma Izabella Balode, Ritvars Logins, Jānis Grūtups, Gerds Lapoška, Marta Jančevska
Runtime: 65 min
Country: Latvia
Languages: Latvian

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