medelghachi

Under Thirty Percent

Under Thirty Percent explores a world where human value is quantified, reduced to numbers, and administratively processed. In this system, identity is not inherent — it is calculated. The film follows a seemingly ordinary bureaucratic procedure: a man enters an office to request passage. A percentage is deducted. A machine scans his hand. A transaction occurs without emotion. Everything appears procedural, controlled, neutral. But beneath this cold efficiency lies a deeper erosion. As numbers decrease, something less visible begins to vanish. Memory falters. Language hesitates. The name — the most basic marker of identity — becomes uncertain. The film examines how systems designed for “stability” can quietly redefine existence itself. It questions what happens when compliance becomes currency, and when being “below the threshold” no longer affects privileges — but personhood. Visually restrained and emotionally controlled, the film avoids spectacle. It builds tension through stillness, silence, and administrative realism. Under Thirty Percent is not about dystopia in the future. It is about the subtle mechanisms of erasure already embedded in the present