I was thrilled to see that this film has made it to theatres in the Czech Republic where more people will be able to see it apart from the KVIFF aficionados.
One of the rare films that is made only once in a while, a unique combination of human suffering under a dictatorial regime, hope to escape and live in freedom, struggle to remain courageous, meaning of family, desire to find love, but most of all, lack of understanding and desire of the world outside to help those who have managed to escape a cruel regime and their only desire is to live in freedom.
The story evolves around a family of an Iranian political activist, his young wife and their son, two children and two friends who are trying to take them to their parents already in Austria, and an older and younger man.
All these stories follow the same fate of refugees from Iran via the mountains to Ankara, Turkey, where they are waiting for a UN refugee status and a country that will accept them. While they wait they live at a filthy pension always beware of the Iranian secret police and trying to cling to their hope.
What distinguishes this film from others is the sensitive portrayal of the characters and the range of the things that drive them, wittingly knitted together by a plot that combines the most serious moments with those that make you smile, all time keeping the story believable.
At 110 minutes length the story will have your attention the whole time and will cling to you strongly long after you've left the cinema.
One of the best films this year that tells the story of so those who make it from Iran to freedom, and those who don't, and finally those, who do to enjoy it just for a moment.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
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