Pale Star

When isolation leads to desolation

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2016 / 79min.

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Genres

Drama

Synopsis

PALE STAR is about the possessiveness of love. About how that possession peels back to expose power and control until we can see, in its dark heart, not love but murder.

Directors

Actors

Iain Robertson

Isabelle Joss

Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

Freyja Björk Guðmundsdóttir

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