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The Fire Next Time

Renaldho Pelle · UK · Drama / Thriller / Animation · 7 min · 5.4K views

Directed by Renaldho Pelle · Starring Stella Heath Keir, Eric Kranja, Romario Pelle, Chekera Pelle · 2021

On a struggling housing estate, simmering inequality boils over into rioting. Meanwhile a shadowy, unexplained force seems to rise from the buildings themselves and close in on the residents.

A tense, atmospheric animation that turns a housing estate's oppression into a living, encroaching darkness.

Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in.

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