

Eight minutes. One highway. Two strangers. Nothing is what it seems.
Two men in an unexpectedly meeting on a highway in the middle of the night.
Direction
Thelin weaponizes negative space and headlights.
Cinematography
Night shoots that make Sweden feel like another planet.
Director
Julia Thelin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thelin made this as her graduation film from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, and it toured festivals while bigger Swedish films got ignored.
Part of a wave of 2010s Nordic shorts exploring 'folkhemmet' anxiety—the Swedish welfare state's dark underbelly.