From Danish co-directors Christian Edvard Halberg and Helle Rossing, the short film Poz follows a lost young man who is looking for meaning in all the wrong places.
At the beginning of the film, Oliver (Max Raundalf Laursen), a troubled 20-something, arrives at his sister’s apartment on her birthday with the sole intention of pestering her.
When he asks whether she would be willing to take care for him in the event that he gets ill, the moment goes by mostly unnoticed. But a deeper, murkier truth lies beyond the question.
Oliver has been engaging in deliberately risky sexual behavior with a variety of men. When an HIV test comes back negative, he’s devastated to find himself healthy. Skipping his sister’s birthday party, he ventures out into the night, looking to finally catch hold of the virus he’s been seeking.
Stylishly constructed with haunting sound design, Poz is an intense and confrontational short film, following one young man on a misguided journey.
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