You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje – three teenagers with nowhere to go.
Acting
Young cast delivers raw, unsentimental performances.
Writing
Dialogue that trusts silence to do the heavy lifting.

Director
Gunnar Vikene
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vegas captures a specific Norwegian welfare system reality: teens aging out of care with nowhere to land.
Director Gunnar Vikene spent months researching with Oslo social workers; the apartment was an actual former group home.