Northwest

2014 • 90 minutes

About this movie

Northwest is one of the most impoverished multi-ethnic areas of Copenhagen. Living here with his mother, younger brother and little sister is 18-year-old Casper, who struggles to make ends meet selling stolen goods to one of the neighbourhood gang-leaders. When organized crime hits Northwest, the hierarchy of the neighbourhood shifts and Casper is offered a chance to climb the ranks. Soon he's hurled into a world of drugs, violence and prostitution and as things escalate his childhood playground becomes a battlefield. Consequently Casper finds himself and his family dead centre in a conflict that threatens to destroy them.

Ratings and reviews

good film worth watching.