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<td><h1>PLANGENT RAIN</h1></a></td>
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<td>Daqqet ix-Xita / Plangent Rain: A short film from Malta.</td>
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<td width="49%" valign="top"><p>A boy is torn between his natural ineptitude and the need to break away from the clutches of his bleak environment. The son of a sailor, the boy lives a mockery of his father's life, rowing a rotting boat across an ancient harbour.</p>
<p>The film explores the moment the boy's frustration with his life, and with having to put up with the enseamed union between overbearing mother and weaselly uncle, boils over.</p>
<p>Steeped in a dark, liquefied decrepitude, the film is inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet.</p></td>
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<td width="49%" valign="top"><p>Created by Lighthouse & Ashley, <em>Plangent Rain</em> is the first film to be produced with co-financing from the Malta Film Fund.</p>
<p>Set in the Grand Harbour and in the narrowest street of Valletta, the film offers a glimpse of a story that could have happened in one of the tenements of Strait Street.</p></td>
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