Flies on the Wall

Running time: 92 mins

My Larsen is an award-winning documentarist in her early thirties. Self-centered and assertive, she likes to challenge and provoke her surroundings. She takes on an unusual assignment to make a film about the conservative township of Ravnsborg. Given broad control over what she can film, My employs all kinds of techniques to capture her subjects, with and without their knowledge.

Soon, My learns there is a dark side to life in this small town, and someone is trying to cover up a terrible secret and they will stop at nothing to keep My from discovering the truth. Who is covering it up? What is everyone afraid of? ?Fear,? My tells the camera, keeps her on her toes, but as the mystery unfolds, My stammers for understanding and races against time for her life.

In cinéma-vérité style, and within a classic whodunit, Åke Sandgren Flies on the Wall exposes the power, perhaps corrosive nature, of media to inform?or misinform. It smartly acknowledges the role of propaganda in politics and is careful to portray that as the driving force behind the corruption and murder. Based on actual events, Flies on the Wall will leave your mind reeling and pondering the evidence long after it is over.

Preceded by: Internal Combustion; dir. Eric Plummer; 11min.; When two squabbling brothers rescue a woman from a religious cult, the intensity of their sibling rivalry is no match for the mysterious forces that are about to envelope them.

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