Two Distant Strangers (2020)

Directed by

Martin Desmond Roe, Travon Free

Genre

science fiction, drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

32 min

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 519 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Black man named Carter is stuck in a time loop where each attempt to get home safely ends with him being killed by a police officer. The film repeats this scenario to show how the pattern of police violence keeps happening without change.

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What happens

Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe. The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death. Two Distant Strangers won the award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, marking distributor Netflix's first win in the category. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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