Director: Tobias Lindholm
Original Title: Kapringen
Language: Danish/Swedish/English/Japanese/Somali

Main Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim

The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbour when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship’s cook Mikkel and the engineer Jan, who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company and the Somali pirates.

A tense and intricately shot drama, A Hijacking is a powerful and intensely watchable film.

Danish director Tobias Lindholm spins an exacting drama out of a crisis on this deft, vérité-style account of Somali piracy in the Indian ocean. Full credit to A Hijacking for resisting the siren-call of Hollywood histrionics in favour of the nuts-and-bolts. The actual hijack passes almost unnoticed…. Lindholm, it transpires, is a past master at this kind of stealthy, high-stakes theatre, having scripted The Hunt, alongside Thomas Vinterberg, and numerous episodes of the Borgen TV series.

Xan Brooks, The Guardian