Sons
Writer/director Gustav Möller (SIFF 2018’s The Guilty) returns to the Fest with another pulse-pounding and morally gray thriller, as a prison guard learns that a young man from her past has just been transferred to her post.
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Friday, May 23, 2025
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Sunday, May 25, 2025
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On the heels of his acclaimed debut, The Guilty (SIFF 2018), Danish director Gustav Möller returns to SIFF with his second feature, another claustrophobic, unrelenting psychological thriller. A guard at a maximum security prison, Eva (Sidse Babett Knudsen) has never fit in with her colleagues, who revel in the opportunistic brutality synonymous with the job. Despite the deeply personal reasons behind her choice of career, Eva allows nothing to crack her stoic, unaffected veneer. But when Nikolas (Sebastian Bull), a young man guilty of an exceedingly vicious and gruesome crime, is transferred to Eva’s prison, she is instantly transported back to the past and can no longer separate herself from her job or the violence it begets. What begins as a crusade for justice dissolves into a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse between guard and prisoner that cannot end until one has broken the other in mind, body, and spirit alike. With bold, commanding performances and an atmosphere so heavy you could cut it with a knife, Sons is an unflinching look at the special breed of barbarism only found in prison that spares no one—on either side of the bars.
- Original Language Title: Vogter
- Director: Gustav Möller
- Principal Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Sebastian Bull, Dar Salim, Marina Bouras
- Country: Denmark, Sweden
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 99 min.
- Producer: Lina Flint
- Screenplay: Gustav Möller, Emil Nygaard Albertsen
- Cinematographers: Jasper Spanning
- Editors: Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen
- Music: Jon Ekstrand
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: The Guilty (2018)
- Language: Danish
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- Format: DCP
- International Sales: Les films du Losange