Your kid vanishes in a mall. The game? Just beginning.
A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.
Direction
Edgar Pêra's hyperkinetic visual assault.
Editing
Relentless cuts mirror gaming addiction.
Director
Edgar Pêra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of Portugal's most experimental filmmakers, Pêra made this as a TV movie that absolutely no broadcaster expected.
The fragmented, game-like structure deliberately mirrors early 2000s anxieties about youth culture and digital immersion.
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