Max is 11 years old, he is obsessed with air pollution and decides to stop breathing or at least, he wants to do it as little as possible, to live longer...will he do it?
Acting
Alex W. Syed's deadpan panic is uncomfortably real.
Writing
Absurd premise played painfully straight.
Direction
Directors squeeze a feature's worth of dread into 13 minutes.
Director
Daniele Lince
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film premiered at Clermont-Ferrand, the world's most prestigious short film festival, where eco-anxiety narratives are increasingly dominant.
Max's 'solution' mirrors real children's climate protests — turning helplessness into extreme, logically consistent action that adults find absurd.
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