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Holloway

2025 · 86 min

Quiet, heavy and intimate, like sitting in a circle of hard-won testimony inside echoing empty corridors.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
Holloway — once the largest women's prison in Europe, now abandoned. Six ex-inmates revisit, recounting experiences, giving voice to incarcerated women. They explore vacant cells and corridors, recalling memories from their time inside.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 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
  • trauma
  • healing
  • isolation
  • justice
  • family
Places
  • prison
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour2
Realism10
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight9

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Daisy-May Hudson, Sophie Compton
Written by
Daisy-May Hudson, Sophie Compton, Stella Heath Keir
Cinematography
Sarah Cunningham
Runtime
86 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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