A struggling Somali-American airport shuttle driver illegally takes a passenger to Chicago. En route, he discovers the passenger is wearing a bomb vest and confesses to setting off a bomb at the Minneapolis airport that killed five people. A film by Vadim Perelman, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Djimon Hounsou, Leigh-Ann Rose, Carolina Campos, Tegan Couchman, Adrian McLean, Sarah Constible, Teddy Parker, Chris Sigurdson, Alexandra Chubaty Boychuk, Sean Seidel, David MacInnis, Cory Chetyrbok, Chris Thompson, and Sherri Campbell.

Directed by Ukrainian-Canadian-American filmmaker Vadim Perelman from a screenplay by Bennett Fisher, The PASSENGER is a tense thriller that follows a struggling airport shuttle driver who accepts a $600 off-the-books fare to Chicago, only to discover his passenger is the bomber responsible for a recent deadly explosion at the Minneapolis airport. The film is based on Fisher’s 2016 play, Damascus.

The PASSENGER had a limited theatrical release in the United States on 5 June 2026.