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Cicadas

2025 · Drama · Ina Weisse · 1h 40m

A woman stretched between her ailing parents, a strained marriage and a house in the country strikes up a friendship with a struggling single mother nearby. It stays close to the two of them.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Strongly intimate
  • Clearly slow

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