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Await

2025 · 13 min

A quiet, claustrophobic wait in a single room, building unease through voices on the phone and the weight of being alone.

Directed by: Samara Pérez Santiago
Starring: Karmen Rebecca Rosa Encarnación, Ricardo Andre Lugo, Gerardo Ortiz

Overview: A pregnant woman makes a series of phone calls to her doctor and loved ones while she waits alone to give birth at her parent's bathtub.

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Directed by: Samara Pérez Santiago
Starring: Karmen Rebecca Rosa Encarnación, Ricardo Andre Lugo, Gerardo Ortiz

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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: isolation
parenthood
family
Places: home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Directed by: Samara Pérez Santiago
Written by: Samara Pérez Santiago
Starring: Karmen Rebecca Rosa Encarnación, Ricardo Andre Lugo, Gerardo Ortiz, Heyda Salamán, Ángel Manuel García
Runtime: 13 min
Country: Puerto Rico
Languages: Spanish

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