Short film

For The Dear Leader
2025 · 19 min
A quiet coastal discovery curdles into quiet dread, unfolding with the patient unease of a true-crime snapshot.
- Directed by
- Tom Green
- Starring
- Matthew Higgs, Sabrina Rault, David Margetts
- Tagline
- For the Dear Leader is a short film based on the Pong Su incident of 2003, where North Koreans attempted to smuggle heroin into Australia from a Cargo ship known as Pong Su.
- Overview
- On a quiet beach just outside the coastal town of Lorne, surfer Craig makes a chilling discovery: a significant stash of heroin and a concealed corpse.
- How it feels
- Tense, dark, melancholic and eerie. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Crime, deception, isolation, death
- Content
- Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Tom Green
- Starring
- Matthew Higgs, Sabrina Rault, David Margetts


