Known for Acting
Laura and Alexandra are full of excitement as they arrive in Warsaw, the first stop on their summer-long couchsurfing trip through Europe. New connections are quickly formed, and plans for parties are made, even though Laura at the same time are missing her boyfriend. However, the dynamics of the journey shift when, after a night of heavy drinking, Laura wakes up in a guy’s bed without any memories of what happened.
André and Vera are a young entrepreneurial couple. They get the opportunity to pitch their female health app at a prestigious competition. Before going there, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking. From this point, her attitude changes and André starts to behave unexpectedly.
When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence. Suspicions soon turn to pupils from a disadvantaged neighbouring state school – until a mobile film that reveals Tuna Kvarn’s humiliating initiation rituals appears on social media and triggers dramatic consequences.
A male director is making a film about the annoying, dominant whiteness of cultural space. But what words do they really use? When two of the women in the team question how they figure themselves, they need a break.
Although entirely fictitious, the series gets its inspiration from the Instagram riots that took place in Gothenburg in 2012, whereby an anonymous Instagram account ended up having dramatic consequences for its creators (two young girls were sentenced) and for the victims, creating at the same time riots across the city.
