John Appel, The Netherlands, 2012, 80’, Color

On 22 July 2011, a bomb attack in the centre of Oslo and a shooting spree on the island Utoya took the lives of 77 people. It was the senseless, brutal act of one man: Anders Breivik. The fi lm tells the story of 5 individuals who were present then and shows the role of coincidence in this tragedy. A sequence of small, trivial happenings marks the thin line between life and death. It is a fi lm about the bargain with fate. However much one tries to influence fate, in the end coincidence calls the shots.