Short film

Civic Duty
2025 · 20 min
A quiet, creeping pressure cooker where polite bureaucracy slowly strips a woman bare, leaving you uneasy long after.
- Directed by
- Kasper Stensgaard Sørensen
- Starring
- Pil Egholm, Stine Bjerregaard
- Overview
- In a speculative future, the “Agency for Solidary Coexistence” sanctions citizens who consume too many resources. Gitte, living alone in a house full of possessions, faces a visit from a government agent who gradually dismantles both her life and her sense of self.
- How it feels
- Tense, dark, satirical and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Power, isolation, identity, class
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Kasper Stensgaard Sørensen
- Starring
- Pil Egholm, Stine Bjerregaard

