Shorta

Enforcement is a 2020 Danish crime action film directed by Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm in their feature directorial debut. The film premiered at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in the 35th International Critics' Week on 5 September 2020, and it is about two patrol officers who find themselves trapped when unrest spreads after news arrives that a young foreigner of the ghetto has died while in police custody. Plot Jens Høyer (Simon Sears) and Mike Andersen are officer on routine patrol in the ghetto of Svalegården, a fictional neighborhood of Copenhagen. The mood among the foreign population is heated because an arrested Senegalese, 19-year-old Talib Ben Hassi, was seriously injured in police custody and is in danger of life. Subsequently, when the death of the young Talib is made known, the two agents, engaged in a search, are attacked and their car is set on fire. Jens and Mike will then have to survive the ghetto people's desire for revenge. Production Shorta is an Arabic word for police. Release The film had its world premiere at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in the 35th International Critics' Week on 5 September 2020. It had a Danish theatrical release on 8 October 2020. It had a limited theatrical release in North America by Magnolia Pictures and was released on VOD by Magnet Releasing on 19 March 2021. It was internationally released on 4 June 2021.