Two roommates' lives are upended after discovering that their curiously affordable Manhattan apartment harbours a dark secret in Dasha Nekrasova's transgressive conspiratorial thriller. THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST, shot on grainy 16mm film and cheekily referencing everything from 1970s horror to today’s news, ramps up the tension while keeping its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. Driven by a palpable outrage and an acutely self-aware sense of the zeitgeist, Nekrasova’s film was the winner of Best First Feature at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.

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