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Tears

Ivan Sen | Australia 1998 | 15 min

Two teenagers walk from the certainty of life on the ‘mish’ (mission) to a bus stop and enter uncertain dreams of a life somewhere else. At the bus stop both of them have to make a decision.

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Release dates 1998 - Australia
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Rating G - general
Language level difficult
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Genre Drama
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This short subject could as well be the initial study to Beneath Clouds (2002), a full feature film also by Ivan Sen. In both cases the teenager’s names are “Lena” and “Vaughn”, and Ivan Sen lets them walk a lonely outback road.

Other films by Ivan Sen:
Journey (1997)
Warm Strangers (1997)
Wind (1999)
Beneath Clouds (2002)
Yellow Fella (2005)
Aunty Connie (2006)
Shifting Shelter 3 (2006)
A Sister’s Love (2007)
Fire Talker (2008)
Dreamland (2009)
Toomelah (2011)

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