Students at a suburban high school drift through a seemingly uneventful day, until two arrive with sinister intentions. A semi-improvised exploration of how violence makes its way into a typical American high school that won the Best Director and the Palme d’Or at 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

Gus van Sant took home both the Palme d’Or and Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival for this fictionalized account of the 1999 Columbine massacre. An eerily powerful yet stripped back drama of a day-in-the-life, with mesmerizing camerawork from the great cinematographer Harris Savides.