A film director’s ambition to make a realistic hickey on a young actor leads to a twisted moral compass and a terrible decision. Jakob Marky’s Make-Up is a dry-witted, cringe-worthy exploration of the film industry and human psyche.

With the filmmaker revealing that the majority of his work “centres very heavily around characters, predominantly men, who take themselves very seriously and think of themselves as very intelligent”. He admits that “the fact that they are neither is something [he] can relate to very much”.