The Man With the Silver Case

Already killing himself with drugs and alcohol, an unnamed Man in Gray accepts the deadly job of delivering a suitcase with unknown contents to a shadowy organization. Handcuffed to his wrist, he finds himself on the run from others who will kill anyone for it. As the company he works for starts tearing itself up, the safe house he retreats to puts him in contact with a family unprepared for the nihilistic violence he brings with him – and desperately wants out of. Drawing inspiration from Jean-Pierre Melville, Hitchcock, and Michael Haneke, the film bridges the gap between high-concept style and gritty genre cinema. Captured in native black-and-white on location in Switzerland, the film finds a ‘terrible beauty’ in the late-winter Alps, juxtaposing the vast, rugged isolation of the landscape against one man’s internal struggle to outrun his own self-destruction.