The Film

Repossessing Tim is set in the surreal world of Arcadia, where banks employ endless rules and pointless bureaucracy to keep their citizens in order. In this world, citizens have to follow a strict code of conduct, have a steady job and a long-term relationship, to ensure that they are ‘profitable to society’.

The film follows the story of Tim, a man who manages to lose his job and his girlfriend in the same week. He is taken away in the dead of night and told that he is going to be kicked out of Arcadia as punishment for not following the rules.
Tim is then transported to a new world, one full of junk and leftovers, a million miles from the austere Arcadia. Here he meets Nelly, who introduces him to an alternative way of living, one that is not set by rules or restrictions and although not everything is perfect, everything is workable. Together they create a life for themselves and Tim learns that happiness is not borne of order and perfection.

Repossessing Tim is a film for everybody who hates bureaucracy, who has ever felt like they were conned by a bank into getting something they didn’t really want (like insurance for something that you don’t think will ever really happen), and anybody who has ever exaggerated positive aspects of their life to seem like a more successful, a more functioning or just ‘better’ human being.