The Lights, They Fall

The Lights, They Fall

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Release Date

8/20/2026

Runtime

87 mins

Genres

Overview

Sixteen-year-old Ilay drifts through the summer on the outskirts of Berlin while a palliative nurse accompanies his ailing mother during her last days.

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

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Revenue

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Homepage

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A quiet, tender portrait of adolescence suspended in the shadow of loss, where small moments of drifting become a way of processing the unbearable. Time moves slowly and gently, asking you to sit with heartbreak rather than rush through it.

Mood

MelancholicIntimateContemplativeWistful

Themes

GriefFamilyComing of ageMortality

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

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