Why post a letter, when you can send an email at the click of a button? Why write a cheque, when you can send a wire transfer instantaneously? Why rob a bank at gunpoint when you can do it from behind the safety of a computer screen? Debates, elections, wars; they are won now as much in cyberspace as they are in the real world. Billion Dollar Heist looks at a particular instance of cyber activity in which a group of hackers known only as “The Lazarus Group” plotted to steal just shy of a billion dollars from the Bangladeshi Central Bank, capitalising on the bank’s relatively lax security. The film sets out to retell the happenings of that fateful weekend, whilst offering an extensive history of cybercrime and the chaos that it can, and potentially will, inflict. It’s a fascinating depiction of how humankind is becoming increasingly reliant on a complex web of online spaces to carry out the most essential of societal tasks.