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Acting
Tom Van Landuyt's quietly devastating transformation from witness to activist.
Direction
Van Looy's clinical restraint makes the horror feel bureaucratically inevitable.
Writing
The institutional dialogue cuts deeper than any physical violence.

Director
Erik Van Looy
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