Archive of films Border / Gräns
Sweden / Denmark
2018, 102 min
Section:
Another View
Year: 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.
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 director

Ali Abbasi (b. 1981, Tehran, Iran). Filmography: M for Markus (2011, short), Shelley (2016), Border (Gräns, 2018)
Contacts
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About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Another View |
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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 |
Guests

Jan Macola
Cinema Representative, Distributor, Producer

Ali Abbasi
Film Director

Nina Bisgaard
Producer