11.09.2024 | CRITICAL ZONE / MANTHAGHEYE BOHRANI (IR/DE 2023, Ali Ahmadzadeh)

IR/DE 2023, D: Ali Ahmadzadeh, A: Amir Pousti, Shirin Abedinirad, Maryam Sadeghiyan, 99′, OV with English subtitles, DCP

Amir is a courier. His cargo could earn him the death penalty. He shares his flat with a dog, whose mouth he covers after eating so that it swallows its medicine. In the end, Amir will do the same with a young addict. The people in the critical zone, which Iran has degenerated into under the mullahs’ captivity, have to swallow bitter pills every day. CRITICAL ZONE tells of the precarious conditions and the small moments of rebellion: hash brownies in an old people’s home or undisguised outbursts of rage. The Locarno winner of 2023 is a gesture of resistance par excellence, realised with great creativity and a sense of formal sophistication despite the director’s activity ban.

Wed 11. SeptLuru Kino in der Spinnerei
9:30 pm7 (6 reduced)

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