Straight Circle

An entertaining, award-winning anti-war satire about two soldiers on opposite sides of a border, where the line between friend and enemy increasingly appears to be an illusion.

In a comedy that is both timely and timeless, the contradictory absurdity of war is exposed in a striking and effective way. Two fictional countries have drawn a line through the desert, and at a remote outpost, two soldiers are assigned to guard the border, and each other. Isolated from the outside world and high-level politics, they engage in their own psychological battle, spiraling into an absurd situation where the truth becomes increasingly blurred. A wonderfully creative and surreal comedy, and a Critics’ Week winner at the Venice Film Festival.

• Johan Blomqvist