12 Dares
In Södra Ryd, unwritten rules about manliness and status reign. You do not let your brother down without consequences. After a fight, where Food leaves the unforgiving leader Salle in a fix, the gang freezes him out. To get back into the warmth, he has to prove his loyalty by doing twelve daring exploits. Director Izer Aliu borrows from personal experiences in a raw portrayal of a gang of friends marked by violent tendencies and rock-solid loyalties. 12 Dares is a playful growing-up portrayal with associations to Guy Ritchie’s early gangster films, but here the same rough macho ideals are channelled into a gang of petty hooligans outside of Skövde.
Izer Aliu is an Albanian born in Macedonia. His childhood and adolescence primarily took place in Norway and Sweden. Since the graduated from the Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer in 2012, he has made films in various places in the world, but the base has always been in Oslo. His exam-film "To Guard a Mountain" dubbed him one of ten Nordic directors to watch. He has been nominated for the Student Academy Award and won several high-end, both national and international awards. Following his graduation he set out to make his first feature "Hunting Flies" in Macedonia, and the short "The Good Life - Over There" set in the cityscape of Oslo. "Hunting Flies" (2016) is a low budget feature film which he made on his own initiative, a spontaneous project which taught him a whole lot about how things function when you finally have a film on your hands. The feature film "12 Dares" ("12 bragder / 2017") is a co-production between Sweden and Norway.
Filmography
Hunting Flies (2016), 12 bragder (12 Dares, 2022)
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