Movie

The Green Eyes

2026 · 85 min

A quiet, dreamlike plunge into a child's grief, blending social realism with eerie fantasy and a slow-building emotional pull.

Overview: Chaya, 11, lives with her family in the Landes region, by the ocean. When they learn they’re being evicted, her older brother Nour falls into a deep and mysterious sleep. Chaya will do everything she can to wake him up, even going so far as to dive into his dreams to find him.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, warm and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Family, isolation, survival, grief
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 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: family
isolation
survival
grief
identity
Places: countryside
small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none