Shame on Dry Land

Shame on Dry Land (Syndabocken, 2023) is a Swedish-Maltese crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Axel Petersén tracks a retired con man through a sun-bleached wedding weekend that turns out to be the worst place he could have landed.

Dimman walked away from fraud years ago. An invitation brings him to Malta — a friend's lavish ceremony, expensive hotels, the Mediterranean in full summer. Underneath it all sits a Swedish expat community running online gambling operations on the island, the kind of money that always comes with strings attached. Someone tasks him with tailing a local tax inspector. One straightforward job. Except nothing about this crowd is straightforward.

Less a thriller than a character study about a man who thought he'd reinvented himself discovering that the old version never left. Cold, dry, and not particularly interested in your comfort. Stream Shame on Dry Land (2023) online on iFILM.