Zoo (2019)

Original title

ZOO

Directed by

Will Niava

Genre

action

Country

Canada

Runtime

12 min

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three young men are going out for the night. Their evening becomes violent due to police brutality and racial profiling.

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What happens

Zoo is a 2019 Canadian short drama film directed and co-written by Will Niava. The film explores themes of police brutality, racial profiling, and power dynamics through the story of three young men whose night out takes a violent turn. The film premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2019. It later gained significant attention for its prescient depiction of racial conflict shortly before the global George Floyd protests, eventually being selected for the Criterion Collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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