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The Dashed Lines

2026 · 85 min

A quiet, tender two-hander that finds unexpected warmth in a tense encounter, unfolding slowly with emotional honesty.

Directed by: Anxos Fazáns
Genres: Drama, Romance
Starring: Mara Sánchez, Adam Prieto, Machi Salgado

Overview: Bea is a middle-aged woman going through divorce. Denís is a young trans man who breaks into her house. Rather than turning him in to the police, she decides to spend the next few days getting to know him.

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Directed by: Anxos Fazáns
Genres: Drama, Romance
Starring: Mara Sánchez, Adam Prieto, Machi Salgado

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: identity
isolation
found family
class
healing
Places: home
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, romance
Directed by: Anxos Fazáns
Written by: Ian de la Rosa, Anxos Fazáns
Starring: Mara Sánchez, Adam Prieto, Machi Salgado, Mónica García Cadahía, Alberto Rolán, Ana Fornéas
Music: Xavier Bértolo
Cinematography: Sandra Roca
Runtime: 85 min
Country: Spain
Languages: Galician

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