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Sunflower

2024 · 84 min

A quiet, tender coming-of-age story that sits with a boy's inner struggle, feeling honest and emotionally raw without melodrama.

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Overview
A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne's edge.
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • sexuality
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • suburbs
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Gabriel Carrubba
Written by
Gabriel Carrubba
Starring
Liam Mollica, Luke J. Morgan, Olivia Fildes, Nelson Blattman, Dylan Laguerre, Uisce Goriss-Dazeley, Elias Anton, Jacob Pontil-Scala
Runtime
84 min
Country
Australia
Languages
English

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