VIDEO A house of dynamite red carpet in Venice

Synopsis
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

Director’s Statement
I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was considered the go-to protocol for surviving an atomic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the threat felt so immediate that such measures were taken seriously. Today, the danger has only escalated. Multiple nations possess enough nuclear weapons to end civilisation within minutes. And yet, there’s a kind of collective numbness — a quiet normalisation of the unthinkable. How can we call this “defense” when the inevitable outcome is total destruction?
I wanted to make a film that confronts this paradox — to explore the madness of a world that lives under the constant shadow of annihilation, yet rarely speaks of it.

Photos by Laurent Hou