Caught in the Net

A seventeen-year-old who was bullied at school becomes Norway’s first beauty blogger, and soon the whole country is arguing about her face. Across six episodes that never let up, drawn from a true story, the internet gives her everything and then hands her the bill. — In Oslo in the mid-2000s, seventeen-year-old Selina sets out to show the girls who bullied her that she’s worth more than they think. She invents a persona called Selina Isabel and lets her loose online, and within months she’s the biggest blogger in the country, with half of Norway arguing about her. Through all of it, Selina keeps on posting.

Kristoffer Borgli (“The Drama”) earned his ticket to Hollywood with this venomous but deeply tender satire of a generation and its culture. A young woman in Oslo who wants only to be looked at takes a withdrawn Russian drug that wrecks her skin, and the make-up took seven hours a day. — Signe envies her boyfriend Thomas, whose art made from stolen designer furniture is suddenly being taken seriously in Oslo, because she wants that attention for herself. Then she hears about a Russian anti-anxiety drug that was pulled from the market for disfiguring the people who took it. She orders it online, and the attention starts to come. — Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2022

Egypt’s submission for the Oscars is a fresh glance at coming-of-age films and indirectly talks about double lives that result from conservative social views during the time of social media paradise - the place where you can be anyone you want. — In a small Egyptian town at the Nile Delta, Souad, 19-year-old young girl, leads a double life. While conservative and veiled among family and society, she is obsessed with her image on social media and goes in secret virtual relationships with men. She constantly lies about her personal life, projecting images of a different, desired one. A series of small incidents leads to a tragic event that makes Rabab, her 13-year-old sister, embark on a real-life journey looking for answers. — Best Actress Award (Bassant Ahmed Basmala Elghaiesh) | Tribeca Film Festival | 2021 Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2020 Official Selection | Berlin Film Festival Panorama

Pure idealism and the erotic, existential and ecological concerns of a youth in search of identity, in a fresh and characteristically… French directorial debut of a promising director. — In the parisian suburbs, an 18 year old girl of African descent, tries to find her place in the world and fight for a better future. But can you combine ecological activism with love?

Nobody films today’s Europe like Radu Jude, who is both provocateur and scholar. He borrowed his title from Stanisław Jerzy Lec and cut a Romanian classic into the film to deliver a merciless takedown of modern consumerism, a world where old cinema and TikTok go arm in arm. — Angela, a production assistant in present-day Bucharest, has been up since four in the morning. A corporation has ordered a film about safety at work, and she spends the whole day driving around the city to film auditions with workers who were injured on the job and are supposed to tell their own stories. The company, though, has its own ideas about how those stories should go. — Special Jury Prize | Locarno Film Festival | 2023

After "The Square", Reuben Östlund again tackles class satire in a delightful black comedy that puts Marx, consumerism and... bodily fluids in a blender against the backdrop of the greek Chiliadou beach. — Carl and Yaya are influencer fashion models whose relationship is increasingly soured by money. Offered free places on a luxury cruise, they find themselves sharing a superyacht with arms dealers and an oligarch, while a cynical Marxist alcoholic captains the ship as things quickly turn upside-down. — Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2023 Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2023 Nomination for Best Screenplay | Oscars | 2023 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2022 Best European Film | European Film Awards | 2023

The Israeli director Michal Vinik surprises the festival world with a well-crafted chamber drama, which with escalating tension and with the help of an excellent script reveals how far gender equality still is. Silver Alexander Meet the Neighbors award at the 63rd Thessaloniki Film Festival. — Valeria, a young Ukrainian, arrives in Israel to meet her future husband. Their wedding has been arranged online - just like the wedding of the girl's older sister, who has already been married in Israel for years. But nothing will run smoothly after this arrival. — Official Selection - Orizzonti | Venice Film Festival | 2022 Silver Alexander - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki Film Festival |2022

Chat rooms will never be the same after this shocking documentary - social experiment that dared to delve into the taboo subject of child sexual abuse on the internet. An experiment that soon turned into an act of activism and led to many criminal arrests in the Czech Republic. — Three over-18 actresses with very young appearances are tasked with pretending they are 12 on fake social network profiles. In faithful copies of children’s rooms created in a film studio they chat and Skype with men of all ages who have searched for and contacted them online. The vast majority of these men demand video sex and send photos of their penises or links to porn. Some even attempt blackmail.

The debut film that took the Locarno Film Festival by storm is a shockingly direct confrontation with the demons of female adolescence, body image and class inequality. The tough and fearless directorial vision and gut-wrenching screenplay make the film inescapably memorable. — 13-year-old Maria lives with her grandmother in a bleak industrial town. During a violent street clash, Maria meets Kristina, a girl her age who aspires to be a model. The two girls enroll in a mysterious modeling school, where they prepare for the biggest casting audition in the area. Her ambivalent relationship with Kristina and the environment of the modeling school (which resembles a cult) push Maria on a journey in search of her identity. — Best Film | Locarno Film Festival | 2024 Junior Jury Prize | Locarno Film Festival | 2024