The Burden

Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
SE 201714 min. 10 sec.

The employees of the various commercial venues, portrayed as animals, deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns next to a large freeway. The apocalypse in this dark musical is a tempting liberator. Director views her works as modern fables, exploring human relations through the filter of animality. She points to the details of life that we are used to overlook.