

A 25-minute heist that punches harder than most two-hour blockbusters.
A desperate woman robs a gas station with her nearly-blind younger brother and catapults herself into deep water in order to pay for his cataract surgery.
Acting
Thurøe's panic-stricken determination is devastating.
Direction
Keis squeezes feature-film tension into every minute.
Cinematography
Tight, sweaty close-ups that refuse to let you breathe.

Director
Jonatan Egholm Keis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Danish short cinema often explores welfare state failures through intimate genre lenses, and this continues that tradition with surgical precision.
Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen (August) previously starred in Netflix's 'The Rain'—this stripped-down role showcases his range without the apocalyptic spectacle.