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Ancestry Road

2025 · 86 min

A quiet, eerie family drama where grief and the supernatural blend into a slow, unsettling meditation on loss.

Directed by
Glenn Triggs
Genres
Drama
Starring
Seb Muirhead, Charlotte Gray, Jessica Stanley
Tagline
Family is forever.
Overview
When Kevin's daughter continually goes missing up the back of their Scottish farm, he builds a road to make life easier. Yet when deceased family members begin arriving in their cars for a visit, everything changes.

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Directed by
Glenn Triggs
Genres
Drama
Starring
Seb Muirhead, Charlotte Gray, Jessica Stanley
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • grief
  • family
  • isolation
  • memory
  • death
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour2
Realism4
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Glenn Triggs
Written by
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Starring
Seb Muirhead, Charlotte Gray, Jessica Stanley, John Xintavelonis, Anne Cordiner, Bill Munro, Jodie Wolf, Gillian Unicomb
Runtime
86 min
Country
Australia
Languages
English

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