Movie

This Is Not Happening

2026 · 76 min

A taut, claustrophobic moral pressure-cooker that keeps you uneasy as a father's world quietly collapses.

Overview: Bartek learns that his teenage son is the perpetrator of a murder at school. The distraught boy runs to his dad, so the man hides out with him in his fiancée's flat. As he tries to get everything under control, he grows up to confront the truth about his son and himself as a father.
How it feels: Tense, dark, melancholic and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Family, guilt, morality, parenthood
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
guilt
morality
parenthood
deception
Places: home
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none