When award-winning filmmaker Erik Matti’s action-thriller OTJ (On The Job) had its world premiere at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival in France back in May, the movie received a two-minute standing ovation from a full-packed house.

One of 21 films from around the world featured in the prestigious festival’s Directors’ Fortnight Section, two of OTJ’s lead stars were present at the screening, both of them overwhelmed, stunned and humbled by the highly sophisticated movie audience’s response to what has certainly become a turning point in their respective acting careers.