13 minutes that'll make you side-eye every police sketch forever.
A police sketch artist who believes he has stumbled upon the suspect from one of his drawings becomes convinced he knows how to do the right thing.
Direction
Diallo weaponizes silence and close-ups.
Acting
Bess's eyes do ALL the heavy lifting.
Director
Mariama Diallo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Diallo made this as her NYU thesis before breaking out with 'Master'—same obsession with institutional racism, tighter squeeze.
The film weaponizes the same sketch-artist mythology that TV procedurals spent decades romanticizing.
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