A tense, chilling drama following the emotional journeys of a ship's crew as they are taken hostage in the Indian Ocean, A HIJACKING was the stand out film at the Venice, Toronto and BFI London Film Festivals in 2012. Arrow Films will release Tobias Lindholm's taut thriller A HIJACKING on 10th May 2013 The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbour when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship's cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbæk) and the engineer Jan (Roland Møller), who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company (Søren Malling) and the Somali pirates.