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Border

Another View 2018 / Gräns / Sweden, Denmark 2018

Reclusive customs officer Tina is gifted with an extraordinary sense of smell. Any passengers trying to smuggle contraband won’t get very far: she can sniff out their fear and anxiety straight off. One day, however, suspicious-looking Vore walks past her and suddenly everything is different. This original variation on the Nordic noir detective genre about love, people, and other creatures won an award at the Cannes IFF 2018.

Border Border

Synopsis

Reclusive customs officer Tina is gifted with an extraordinary sense of smell. Any passengers trying to smuggle contraband won’t get very far: she can sniff out their fear and anxiety straight off. One day, however, suspicious-looking Vore walks past her and suddenly everything is different. Working with various genres (thriller, romance, fantasy) Abbasi leaves room for the imagination and offers a look at the world of people from the outside in. The question for Tina is whether to stay inside or outside. The filmmaker worked with a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who caught his attention as the author of Let the Right One In. The film was this year’s winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section.

Vít Kořínek

About the film

102 min / Color, DCP

Director Ali Abbasi / Screenplay Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf podle stejnojmenné povídky / based on the short story of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist / Dir. of Photography Nadim Carlsen / Music Christoffer Berg, Martin Dirkov / Editor Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Anders Skov / Art Director Frida Hoas / Producer Nina Bisgaard, Piodor Gustsaffson, Petra Jönsson / Production A Meta Film Stockholm / Coproduction Black Spark Film & TV, Kärnfilm Production / Cast Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén, Sten Ljunggren, Kjell Wilhelmsen / Sales Films Boutique / Distributor Pilot Film

About the director

Ali Abbasi

Ali Abbasi (b. 1981, Tehran, Iran). Filmography: M for Markus (2011, short), Shelley (2016), Border (Gräns, 2018)

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Producer

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