15 minutes, one burning city, zero brakes on chaos.
After a brutal police beating, riots has broken out in a suburb of Stockholm. Three friends join up to participate in the riots and to burn cars. Finding themselves trapped in the middle of the riots they are forced to escape, stumbling upon an old Mazda that forces them to take a new turn.
Direction
Alexis Almström squeezes feature-level tension into 15 minutes.
Cinematography
Smoke and streetlights creating pure visual panic.
Acting
Evin Ahmad's silent breakdown says everything.
Director
Alexis Almström
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Inspired by real 2013 Stockholm riots following police violence in Husby, a largely immigrant suburb.
Almström shot this as her graduation film from Stockholm Film School — it opened Cannes' Critics' Week.
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