I Am Good At Karate
Youth
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11m
by Jess Dadds • 2021 • United Kingdom
Portrait of a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate. They wander around a housing estate in East Kent, locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon made of football shirts.
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