One story. One choice. Seventeen minutes that'll wreck your weekend.
A journalist finally gets her first big break after she gets assigned to write a story on Roko, a young man whose been recieving death threats from the representatives of the local organized crime syndicates after his brother falls in major debt with them. She publishes the story, but this only increases the threats, leading to a harrowing tragedy.
Acting
Kondža's silent dread says everything without dialogue.
Direction
Marinić Kragić packs a feature's worth of tension into 17 minutes.
Editing
Ruthless cuts that refuse to let you breathe or look away.
Director
Ivana Marinić Kragić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film emerges from Croatia's ongoing reckoning with organized crime's entanglement in legitimate business and political structures.
Marinić Kragić reportedly developed this after interviewing real crime journalists who couldn't sleep—hence the suffocating runtime.
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