Based on true events, the story of Bonnie and Clyde is brought to life eastern Norway in the in 1920s when 17-year-old Johannes meets vagabond Mikael. He is desperate to escape his family’s tragic experiences, but soon enough the stranger’s lifestyle takes over his. After a string of train robberies, adventures, petty theft, and murders Johannes starts to wonder: was running away from himself the right thing to do?

Director Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken found film at the age of 8 and taught himself analogue cinema. Dahlsbakken has stuck to his interest in tactile imagery and has experimented with the possibilities of analogue cinema, both in short and feature-length films that have since received acclaim at international film festivals. The Outlaws was created on 16mm film and fleshed out with a nerve-racking and at the same time compelling crime drama with an undercurrent of Brokeback Mountain (2005).