Winter Brothers

Brothers Emil and Johan live together and work together at a quarry mining limestone. Emil is eccentric and misanthropic and is socially outcasted, but discreetly sells workers illicit home-brewed alcohol, for which he and Johan steal unlabeled liquid chemicals from the quarry's processing plant.

Emil visits a local hermit (credited as "the long-haired man") to collect repayment for an undisclosed debt (presumably alcohol sold to him on credit) and the hermit cannot repay, but Emil accepts a semi-automatic M1 rifle as settlement.

At the quarry, Emil is caught during a shift sneaking a drink of his brew by a supervisor, and the following morning, Johan and Emil are denied transport to the quarry by the driver and are forced to walk. Johan tells Emil a rumor has circulated that Emil's brew has made one of their coworkers gravely ill. Johan calls Emil "dark and aggressive," and Emil says, "Everyone has a little darkness in them," with which Johan disagrees. On a wall at the quarry plant, there's a crudely spray-painted scene of the coworker drinking poison and falling dead. In the mine, Emil asks his coworkers if they want to buy alcohol, and they all decline, citing various excuses. He accosts a coworker, who throws a limestone brick at him, which hits him in the temple. That night, Emil watches an army-issued rifle training video.

The following day, Emil's boss, Carl, summons him under the pretext of a review, during which he mocks Emil and confronts him about stealing from the plant and selling "toxic" homebrew. Two supervisors force-feed Emil an entire bottle of his brew and then throw him out of the plant onto a quarry slope. Emil has a shock-induced hallucination that Johan's girlfriend Anna is lying next to Emil and professes her love to him, and he later hallucinates that Carl is the rifle instructor in the training video and Emil and his coworkers are the trainees.

At home, Emil interrupts Johan and Anna having sex, attacking Johan. During their tussle, Anna sneaks out a window and Johan chokes Emil out, resuscitating him with CPR.

The ill coworker dies, and another worker threatens Emil at the quarry and tells him to leave and stay away, relating a story of a man and his loyal dog in which the man tells the dog to wait at the entrance to the mine while the man works, and the mine collapses, killing everyone inside, and the dog waits until it starves to death.

The next day, Johan leaves for the quarry, and Anna, who stayed the night with him, wakes Emil, who's sleeping on the couch. Emil shows Anna a card trick, and then a chemistry trick. In the mine, Johan's coworkers ostracize him and begin barking at him.

Winter Brothers debuted in the Concorso Internazionale section at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival on 3 August 2017.^[1][6][7] It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.^[8] It later premiered in the USA at the 47th annual New Directors/New Films Festival at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, NYC.^[3]