WIN/WIN Breakthrough

Filmmaker Jaap van Heusden returns lo AFI FEST, this time with his first feature film after his short A COMPLICATED STORY, SIMPLY TOLD was on official selection at AFI FEST 2006. This hyperkinetic cautionary tale follows a young man whose talent with numbers al first wins him women and praise al work but might soon turn out to be his undoing. When Ivan is thrust into the fast-paced world of insider trading, he quickly begins to thrive with his almost preternatural knock for numbers and on intuitive sense of how they connect. But gradually Ivan’s world turns into a swirling vortex – the camera sees patterns everywhere and strange characters emerge from the shadows of Ivan’s nighttime strolls around the city. As Ivan grows ever more reckless with his trading, not even his loose friendships con keep him tethered to reality, and everything threatens to spin fatally out of control.