Ahmed, a teacher originally from Tehran currently living in exile near the border with Afghanistan, tries to protect a young man in love and a girl trapped in an arranged marriage – all while also trying to reconnect with his estranged wife. The film, told in dozens of shades of gray, is set amidst an expansive mountain landscape that nevertheless feels claustrophobic. Winner of the Big Screen Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Endless Borders is a gripping drama in which danger lurks literally everywhere: within the family, amid the area’s ethnic and religious tensions, and inside the politically repressive regime.
Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková
111 min / Color, DCP
Director Abbas Amini
/ Screenplay Abbas Amini, Hossein Farokhzadeh
/ Dir. of Photography Saman Lotfian
/ Music Atena Eshtiaghi
/ Sound Mehrshad Malakouti
/ Editor Hayedeh Safiyari
/ Producer Kaveh Farnam, Farzad Pak
/ Production Europe Media Nest s.r.o., PakFilm GmbH
/ Coproduction FilmInIran
/ Cast Pouria Rahimi Sam, Mino Sharifi, Hamed Alipour, Behafarid Ghaffarian, Naser Sajjadi Hosseini, Ghalem Sakhi Nazari, Latife Zousefi, Houtak Balouch
/ Contact Europe Media Nest
Abbas Amini (1982, Abadan, Iran). Filmography: Valderama (2016), Hendi & Hormoz (Hendi va Hormoz, 2018), Slaughterhouse (Koshtargah, 2020), I Am Here! (2020), Endless Borders (Marzhaye bi payan, 2023).
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