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Gothenburg, Sweden. A group of immigrant teenagers use bullying and social gameplay to rob younger boys of their phones and valuables.

by Patrick Peters |
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Release Date:

12 Jul 2013

Running Time:

118 minutes

Certificate:

15

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This fact-based account of a phone scam pulled by a quintet of black immigrants on three bourgeois kids in Sweden may be contrived and overlong, but it is also technically distinctive and utterly compelling in its analysis of Swedish attitudes towards race.

An unsettling film that uses long takes and a still camera to capture real-life incidents that have caused huge controversy in Sweden.
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