13 minutes to watch humanity crumble — your lunch break will never feel innocent again.
Alpar has his first day of work at the border between Hungary and Serbia. Stationed there to save his country from refugees, he is confronted with the reality of being a border guard and is forced to adapt to the merciless customs.
Acting
Vilmányi's face says everything his dialogue won't.
Direction
Nagy makes 13 minutes feel like a life sentence.
Director
Borbála Nagy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Hungary's 2015 refugee crisis, when the government erected border fences and criminalized humanitarian aid. The short premiered at Berlinale, where some Hungarian officials walked out.
Nagy based Alpar's arc on real accounts of young border guards who developed PTSD from following orders they couldn't justify to themselves.
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