Three Belgian friends with Arabic roots come into possession of a bomb. Nobody knows where it came from, but they have to get rid of it. Meantime the biased suspicion of some local workers is turning into aggression and getting them deeper into trouble.
Direction
Rooze squeezes maximum tension into 19 tight minutes.
Acting
The trio's panic feels dangerously authentic.
Director
Robbin Rooze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's double meaning — literal explosives and the racial 'dynamite' of being Arab in a suspicious Belgium — drives the dark irony.
Released during Europe's refugee crisis peak, the short weaponizes thriller tropes to critique who gets labeled 'terrorist' on sight alone.
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