Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his mother because he knows nothing else. In the junkyard the dream is alive, and in the hands of Sebbe, dead objects come to life. Here he has the power to create. Here he is free - but alone. His isolation grows as his world shrinks, until one day he is completely isolated with no other than his mother. And when she falls, everything falls.
Acting
Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs carries 83 minutes of wordless devastation.
Direction
Najafi's junkyard close-ups turn garbage into cathedral.
Cinematography
Gray-blue Stockholm winter that seeps into your bones.
Director
Babak Najafi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Babak Najafi fled Iran as a child; this is his deeply personal Swedish debut. The junkyard was a real working site outside Gothenburg.
Part of Sweden's 'angry young man' wave of the 2010s—films about failed social democracy and invisible boys. Sebbe is the quietest bomb in that movement.
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