Zoners
2025 · 15m · United Kingdom
Directed by Rosco 5
Genres: adventure, comedy, crime
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Flatmates and polar opposites Samir and Nikhil accidentally steal a package from their maniac neighbour Ivan and journey through a surreal London underworld to replace it.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A British crime-comedy that treats a stolen package as a portal into pure absurdist chaos—most scouts would sand down the surrealism for safer laughs, but Rosco 5 leans hard into the weird and somehow makes it work as character logic rather than visual shtick.
Energetic debut with clear visual intention, though the surrealist register sits uneasily between genre homage and genuine formal experiment; the editing keeps the momentum alive where a more conventional comedy would flag, even if the tonal architecture doesn't quite resolve.
The entire film pivots on a single sound design choice—the way Ivan's apartment world bleeds into the underworld through ambient texture rather than explicit transition—that transforms what could be a flat heist premise into something genuinely disorienting and alive.