A.R.P.U.
2026 · 26m
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
A tech company representative knocks on a woman's door to collect a debt, laying out every tracked detail of her life in a controlled psychological negotiation.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A debt collector as psychological executioner—basically a two-hander chamber piece where surveillance becomes the real weapon, and the entire negotiation is just watching someone's privacy used against them like a loaded gun. Everyone else will probably call it a Black Mirror episode; Felix calls it proof that the best sci-fi doesn't need explosions, just the right premise to make you genuinely unsettled.
The film's restraint—holding the tension almost entirely within dialogue and the collector's methodical recitation—echoes the Dogme minimalism of early Haneke, a deliberate rejection of spectacle in favor of what remains when you strip away everything but language and power. It's formally rigorous in ways that reward close viewing and conversation.
The entire film hinges on the single choice to make the debt collector's monologue the visual anchor rather than the woman's reaction—keeping the camera steady, letting her silence do the work—which transforms what could've been a cheap thriller into something genuinely claustrophobic and unnerving on a shoestring.