Shell's on trial and everyone's guilty—especially you, yes you, watching this on your phone.
Film based on the acclaimed theater production "The Shell Case." In the run-up to the verdict in the historic lawsuit against Shell, the key players in the climate crisis are given the opportunity to make a final plea about their responsibility in the biggest problem of our time.
Acting
Five actors become EVERYONE—corporate, consumer, complicit.
Direction
Theater vets translate live urgency to screen without losing sweat.
Writing
Real court transcripts meet theatrical rage, somehow works?
Director
Dana Nechushtan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the 2019 theater hit that sold out after Shell actually lost a climate case in The Hague—art imitating life imitating corporate panic.
The casting of Jaap Spijkers as CEO was deliberate—he'd played Satan in previous productions, because subtlety is dead and we killed it.
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