Two friends want to stay awake as long as possible - without drugs. C. and Nike are 17, but pretend to be 20. They want to get out. Get out of the confines of the suburbs. They want to feel themselves.
Acting
McKinnon and Neumann's raw, unguarded chemistry carries every frame.
Cinematography
Hazy nightscapes that make exhaustion look almost beautiful.
Director
Kim Frank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frank's debut emerged from Germany's 'Berlin School' adjacent scene, where malls and motorways become existential battlegrounds. The film premiered at Berlinale's Generation section, divisive even there.
The 75-minute runtime is deliberate — Frank wanted audiences to feel the compression of time that sleeplessness creates, that strange elasticity where hours collapse and stretch simultaneously.
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