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Skin (2018)

Skin poster
Directed by
Guy Nattiv
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
20 min
Rated
R
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 140 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man in a white supremacist group gets a second chance at life when he meets a woman who challenges his beliefs. But his past and former associates make leaving dangerous.

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What happens

Skin is a 2018 American short drama film, directed by filmmaker Guy Nattiv. Co-written with Sharon Maymon, the film won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards, marking distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures' first win in the category. Nattiv's full-length feature Skin, also released in 2018, is not related to this film in terms of their narratives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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