

Fifteen minutes to destroy a friendship forever. What would you sacrifice to survive?
A poignant drama about Nick, a 15 year-old boy who risks everything after he sacrifices his friendship with his best mate Trev, to save himself.
Acting
Brad Albert's silent devastation in the final shot
Direction
Ben Young's suffocating tension in 15 minutes
Writing
Dialogue that punches way above its weight

Director
Ben Young
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ben Young made this before his feature debut Hounds of Love, and you can already see his gift for making nice Australian suburbs feel like traps.
The film captures a specific strain of Australian working-class masculinity where loyalty is currency until survival demands bankruptcy.