PROXY

“PROXY” examines the unsettling mechanics of proxy wars: the silent but devastating conflicts where powerful nations pull the strings, while smaller countries pay the price. We see it again and again throughout history and across the globe: in Latin America’s long legacy of intervention, in the destruction of Ukraine, and in the endless turmoil across the Middle East. This is not a film about a single war, but about a system and global structure that turns real lives into pawns for the benefit of distant powers.  

The central metaphor of the film is a chessboard. We are the pawns: expendable, moved without consent. From our screens and headlines, we are told who the players are, but rarely do we see or understand the cost to those stuck in between. “PROXY” attempts to visualize that feeling of entrapment: the sense of being manipulated by invisible hands in a game where the rules are never fully explained.