The Juror (2021)

The Juror is a short Psychological Thriller that follows the journey of Sigmund, a mentally troubled outcast who is saved from his exceptionally mundane life by being called into jury duty for a high profile murder case. Consumed by his social anxiety, he finds it difficult to interact with people, and being sequestered in a small hotel with eleven other jurors proves to be more challenging than he thought. Unable to sleep, he roams around the empty hotel alone, when one night, he comes across the narcissistic, yet extremely charismatic defendant, Nikolai. A bond is quickly formed between the two men, one of obsessive infatuation and self gain. Yet having finally found a friend, Sigmund becomes terrified of losing him to a guilty verdict, leading him to do whatever it takes to set him free, whether he's innocent or not.