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Smoke

2023 · 12 min

A quiet, unsettling animated short that drifts toward dread, asking patience and rewarding it with a lingering chill.

Directed by: Rita Basulto
Genres: Animation, Drama

Overview: A boy, Daniel, travels by train towards a dark destination known as the smokehouse.

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Directed by: Rita Basulto
Genres: Animation, Drama

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
isolation
fate
Places: road trip
Era: timeless
Audience: adult
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	4
Humour	0
Realism	4
Romance	0
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: animation, drama
Directed by: Rita Basulto
Written by: Juan J. Medina, Antón Fortes
Runtime: 12 min
Country: Mexico, United States of America
Languages: Spanish

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