Şilan Aslan

Sometimes a fraction of a second is all it takes to change the world forever. The film Split Second tells the backstories of three of the most influential photographs in human history. In three intercut episodes, we follow the photographers who captured these historic moments in iconic pictures and made them visible to the world.

Leon, from Frankfurt, returns to his native Albania after 20 years to scatter his deceased grandfather's ashes in the sea and is forced to confront his past and the family he never wanted to see again.