This sci-fi animated thriller directed by Tarik Saleh takes place in a not-so-distant future. The world is running out of oil and the underground train systems have been connected into a gigantic subway network beneath Europe. Whenever Roger (Vincent Gallo) from Stockholm enters this system he hears a stranger’s voice in his head. He looks to the mysterious Nina (Juliette Lewis) to help him escape the disturbing web of the Metro, but the further they travel, the deeper he’s involved in a dark conspiracy. Also starring Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, Alexander Skarsgård, Sofia Helin.

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Tarik Saleh has directed several award-winning documentaries including GITMO – NEW RULES OF WAR (2005) which won best documentary at the Seattle Film Festival and Special Grand Jury Mention at Miami Film Festival, and SACRAFICIO – WHO BETRAYED CHE GUEVARA? (2001) winning First Prize in International Film Festivals in Cuba, Portugal, Brazil and raising debate all over Europe and Latin America. He is also one of the founders of Atmo Media Network, and formed Atmo Animation which has gone on to write and produce over 30 short animation films. He has also written and produced two television drama series for SVT Swedish television (A DIFFERENT CLASS and DREAM TEAM).
 

1785 philosopher Jeremy Bentham constructed a new type of prison called the Panopticon. It was designed as a cake, with a watchtower in the middle. Because the prisoner could be monitored at any time without knowing he would just have to assume he was always being watched. The psychological effect was that prisoner started to watch him self. The observer had moved in to the head of the observed. 

In 2024 the Panopticon has a new name: Metropia. I have grown up on American mythology. Not because I was forced to. I remember that I always preferred Disney films before Swedish or Eastern European Animation. The American stuff was just more appealing, more interesting—and to be honest more universal. It's time to create modern European myths—my contribution is Metropia. 

Metropia is about the cultural revolution of our time: surveillance, voyeurism, and paranoia. Metropia is not just a film—it's a state of mind, a way of looking at reality through a new leans. We are creating a new point of reference. The audience will refer to things in there own life, as "that's so Metropia" or look at him he is like the "Ivan Bahn" of this country. 

We have enhanced details and textures in Metropia to get a heightened sense of reality—you can now see sharper and hear better—and if I succeeded that feeling will stay with you long after you left the cinema. Even thought we have invented a new aesthetic style and a new animation technique for this film, my main objective has always been to tell the story of Roger, the protagonist of Metropia. I believe his story has a very strong message for us. Basically that: If there is not freedom inside your head—there is none elsewhere.