Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing the line against his best friend in elementary school. Norway's official submission for the "Best International Feature Film" category at the 97th Academy Awards in 2025. Norwegian films are generally of a low international standard, but here we have a film that also manages to achieve an exceptionally low Norwegian standard. It's a truly rare accomplishment. The film looks like it was made by first-year film school students. These students set out to create an experimental film unlike anything that had ever been seen before, and they succeeded. However, they forgot a few things. Among other things, they forgot that even bad films usually have some tricks in the script to keep viewers engaged until the end - some cliffhangers or other cinematic techniques. This film has none of those. It is just exceptionally bad. Furthermore, it is without a doubt the cheapest film ever made. The expenses are limited to the actors, camera, lighting and sound crew, and in no scene is anyone technically challenged. If you are strong enough to hold a camera and a microphone, you could make this film. The film takes place entirely in the hallways and classrooms of a school. They didn't even bother with sets. This is a school, a county-run school, and they most likely borrowed it for free. The actors don't do a straight-up bad job. But it's hard for actors to act completely bad - it takes an exceptionally bad director to make actors look bad. So, strictly speaking, it’s not the actors’ fault that the film is terrible. However, since they agreed to take the roles, it will be part of their film history that they appeared in the film Armand. It’s not possible to give the film a score of 0, but if it were, it would deserve a 0 simply because it doesn’t deserve a 1. Incidentally, this is Norway’s contribution to this year’s Oscars. The Norwegian Oscar committee decided that this is the best film made in Norway this year. How they came to this conclusion is a mystery, considering that there have been some bad Norwegian films made this year, but Armand is the worst. There are plenty of bad Norwegian films to choose from. For those who don’t know, Norway has no internationally significant actors. By comparison, Sweden and Denmark have dozens, even. This film, with its trip to the US and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, demonstrates to the entire film industry that Norway, for most practical purposes, is a nation without a functioning film scene.