35 minutes of vengeance that'll wreck your week.
Following an act of violence, two loving sisters plan to take revenge on the unconvicted perpetrator and find themselves being pulled deeper and deeper into the darkest areas of their minds. As they are constantly confronted with their fears, they must figure out if the decision to take the law into their own hands can be the answer to their pain.
Acting
Suk and Dézsy carry crushing emotional weight.
Direction
Schmidl stretches 35 minutes into eternity.
Director
Sebastian Schmidl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Fireworks' refers to both celebration and explosion — the sisters' revenge plan and their imploding psyches mirror this duality.
Austrian cinema's recent wave of compact, brutal psychological shorts (this premiered at Vienna Shorts) reflects a national fascination with compressed moral dilemmas.
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