The Kill Team

This chilling thriller based on real events is a dark submersion into the depths of toxic masculinity and the horrors of war. Based on his award-winning doc of the same name, filmmaker Dan Krauss returns to the Maywand District murders, in which a unit of US soldiers murdered Afghan civilians and staged their corpses to look like insurgents. The story centers on Staff Sergeant Deeks, a charismatic sociopath (played with eerie perfection by Alexander Skarsgård) who orchestrates the murders as it were a game of capture the flag, and Private Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff), a soldier torn between numbing himself into complacency and being brave enough to report what's happening. It’s a riveting and provocative look at how soldiers are pushed to dehumanize the enemy. In Person: Director Dan Krauss.