Bad Hostage

Directed by Mimi Wilcox · 2024

A filmmaker investigates why her grandmother, once held hostage, said she feared the police more than her captors, tracing the troubling origins of 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

An Oscar-shortlisted doc that turns family lore into a paradigm-shifting look at Stockholm Syndrome.

After my grandmother was held hostage, she shocked her small town by declaring that she felt more threatened by the police than by the men holding her hostage – and she wasn’t the only woman that year to do so. Shortlist

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