Horizons / The Things You Kill / Turkey, France, Poland, Canada 2025
University professor Ali lives a comfortable life until the moment his mother dies. Was her death caused by Ali’s father and, by extension, Turkish society’s patriarchal culture? Ali’s mind dreams of cold-blooded vengeance, a desire that begins to take on real contours when he encounters a mysterious vagrant capable of doing any job. Alireza Khatami’s third feature film is one of the year’s best genre benders: what begins as a realistic moral drama turns into an existential, nightmarish thriller full of violence, layered metaphors, and the posthumous influence of Abbas Kiarostami or David Lynch.
Vojtěch Kočárník
113 min / Color, DCP
Director Alireza Khatami
/ Screenplay Alireza Khatami
/ Dir. of Photography Bartosz Świniarski
/ Music Benjamin Laurent
/ Sound Ange Hubert
/ Editor Selda Taşkın, Alireza Khatami
/ Producer Elisa Sepulveda-Ruddoff, Cyriac Auriol
/ Production Fulgurance, Remora Films
/ Coproduction Lava Films, Tell Tall Tale, Band With Pictures
/ Sales Best Friend Forever
Alireza Khatami. Selected filmography: Elephant in the Street (2011, short), Taipei Factory (2013, co-dir.), Oblivion Verses (Les Versets de l'oubli, 2017), Terrestrial Verses (Ayeh haye zamini, 2023, co-dir.), The Things You Kill (2025).
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