Athena

Athena (2022) is a French action drama from Romain Gavras you can watch online on iFILM. One Paris housing estate detonates over a single afternoon, and the camera barely lets you breathe.

The youngest of four brothers dies under murky circumstances, with police uniforms caught on film. Abdel (Dali Benssalah), just home from military service, tries to keep the neighborhood from going up in flames. His brother Karim wants vengeance and rallies the local kids into open war with the cops. A third brother, Moktar, hides his drug trade behind the chaos. The estate becomes a fortress, the barricades rise, and each sibling pulls the family a different way.

Gavras shoots almost the whole thing in long unbroken takes; that ten-minute opening with no visible cut sets the heartbeat for everything after. Think Greek tragedy about blood and revenge, relocated to a burning French suburb. Loud, relentless, and impossible to look away from. Stream Athena (2022) online on iFILM.