The single half hour is a perfect television length. It is also a fantastic length to tell complex dramatic stories, yet so often television refuses to do just that. Cost and prejudice stops TV from making the half hour show. Television prefers series or longer dramas, while film makers often say that they cannot grapple with complex subjects in such a short form. Here are three countries and three radically different examples of profound fiction stories at the perfect TV length. Each film grapples with complex issues and ideas -- whether they are political, social or literary -- that are richly developed in this short form.
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TOUCH is an uncompromising and often disturbing work about emotional scarring and the cycle of abuse. In a poetic and highly stylised treatment, the film details the… -
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Twins of the Rain Forest is a period piece set in the 1920s. A family fights against the tradition of leaving newborn twins adrift in the Niger Delta in Nigeria. -
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A debut work. Deep in the Russian countryside, two brothers work as linesmen on the railway. Their idleness gives rise to folly and dreams, feeding their imagination to…