With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
Nobody can understand you when you're 14. Except possibly a monster. A bullied teenager meets a stranger from out of town and they form an unusual relationship.
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".
Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.
Linette has been chatting with a mysterious person on Facebook. When one of her classmates dies tragically and a masked person is spotted watching her and her friends on several occasions, Linette decides to unfriend her mystery Facebook friend. But things are about to get much worse.