“Writer-director Aleksandar Kostic’s Capio is a surreal, slow-burning descent into obsession, technology, and the fragility of perception. The Latin title, meaning “to seize, to take, to capture, to injure,” embodies the central idea: how technology has ensnared the human spirit. Inspired by real-world reports of corporations investing in behavior-manipulating tech, Kostic channeled his uneasiness into a story about how digital dependence erodes privacy, freedom, and emotional connection. Over nearly two decades of development and self-financing, he shaped the film into a surreal vision of a society losing touch with memory, empathy, and reality itself — a meditation on what happens when our tools begin to own us. Filmmaker Kostic hits hard the idea of class and how the divide between the rich and poor grows wider, almost eliminating the middle class. He also shows how our dependence on devices is subtly replacing reality with a fantasy designed to keep us content as the world fall.”