The story opens in Balochistan, in a small, scarcely ‘wired’ village bordering Iran and Afghanistan. Ahmad is an idealistic teacher in exile, educating the local community; his partner Haseeba, however, has spent time in jail in Tehran for the very same offence against the State. The disaccord between them is not only social but also personal. Ahmad's destiny collides with that of a family fleeing the Taliban; soon the intricate divisions of age and gender within that group will trigger other problems and entanglements – including a 'lovers on the run' intrigue that fleetingly recalls Murnau's classic Tabu (1931).
Across all the arresting, shifting peripeteia of its plot, Abbas Amini's film deftly dramatises the complicated question of commitment: do we commit ourselves to a political cause, a set of religious beliefs, or a person? And how do we negotiate the commitments of others, even those closest to us, when they are based on a very different value system?
With its sparse music score, densely naturalistic acting and unostentatious camera work, Endless Borders is almost a minimalistic suspense thriller (with Hitchcockian overtones), combined with a heated family melodrama – but it never loses sight of the serious and extremely timely issues that it raises.
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https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/endless-border
19岁的少年赛斯·戴维斯(吉奥瓦尼·瑞比西 Giovanni Ribisi饰)一心希望能尽快淘到自己的第一桶金,好让父亲另眼相看。他本打算靠玩非法纸牌起家,却发现此路根本行不通,直到一家名为J.T.马林经纪公司的股票经纪商找上了赛维斯。
在这个号称“锅炉房”的核心办公室里,多少个一夜间成为百万富翁的故事深深诱惑着赛维斯。很快,野心勃勃的赛维斯便以优异的成绩通过了股票经济人认证考试,开始了他的“成功之路”。他把那些永远都没有前途的股票卖给利欲熏心的投资者。赛维斯正以极危险的速度追逐着金钱与利益,靠近着他所谓的功成名就,贪婪而不安。在纽约长岛这个瞬息万变的商业圈里,良心未泯的赛维斯终于开始面对良心的考验。
My Name Is Leon by Lynette Linton is a TV feature set against the backdrop of the race riots in 1980s Birmingham. It tells the story of ten-year-old Leon, a mixed-race boy. We follow his quest to reunite his family after being taken into care and separated from his baby brother. Leon’s adventure leads him to an allotment, where he meets Tufty, who will teach him valuable lesson...
On a cold November night in 1993, Wanda Lopez was stabbed to death while she worked at a Corpus Cristi Texas gas station. 21 year old Carlos DeLuna was arrested, and over the next six years, through his trial and subsequent imprisonment he protested his innocence, declaring that it was another Carlos who committed the crime. The prosecution insisted that this other Carlos was a “phantom’ and didn’t exist.
Through illuminating interviews with witnesses, Carlos’ family members, and legal experts the film asks, for the first time since 1993, if the judicial system executed an innocent man, examining key evidence that calls into question whether or not Carlos DeLuna was right about the other Carlos. Was he a phantom after all, or was he a brutal killer, and did a poor Hispanic young man have any chance within a justice system and a society that by it's actions seemed to regard him as disposable? —Deborah Rudolph
巴克是一只骨骼壮硕身材强壮的狗,本来在大法官家里过着养尊处优的生活的它,被园丁偷走,卖到了严寒的阿拉斯加,成为了雪橇犬。巴克坎坷的命运并没有就此终结,之后,它又辗转经历了好几个主人,他们残暴而又冷酷的对待巴克。不仅如此,巴克在狗群中也为了保住自己的地位而经历了巨大的挑战 。
这一次,约翰(哈里森•福特Harrison Ford 饰)成为了巴克的新主人,幸运的是,约翰是一个善良的男人,他不仅非常温柔的对待巴克,还治好了它伤痕累累的身体。随着时间的推移,一人一狗之间产生了坚实的友谊。然而,在一场意外中,约翰被印第安人杀死了,愤怒的巴克失去了理智,它要为自己的主人报仇。