Border

  • Gräns
  • Section: Best of
  • Sweden, Denmark
  • 2018 / 108 min
  • Director: Ali Abbasi
  • Cast: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén
  • Swedish with Czech subtitles

Contact: Pilot Film

 

Tina, a peculiar and solitary customs officer with an uncomely face, isknown for her uncanny sense of smell. She can identify contrabandat the border of Denmark and Sweden by smelling passengers’ fear,anxiety, guilt and other emotions. Despite her success in revealingsmugglers at work, her personal life doesn’t amount to much. Shelives an empty and “pro forma” existence with her deadbeatboyfriend in a small cabin near the woods, her only living relative isher aging father who lives in a nursing home. She is drawn to natureand understands animals much better than people. But everythingchanges when she meets a mysterious and suspicious outcast calledVore with whom she shares many of the same facial features and amysterious and irresistible attraction.

Awards: Cannes FF 2018: Un Certain Regard Award. European Film Awards 2018: European Visual Effects Supervisor. Los Angeles FF 2018: Best Film. Munich FF 2018: Best Film. Norwegian IFF 2018: Norwegian Film Critics Award. Guldbagge Awards 2019: Best Film, Sound, Actress, Supporting Actor, Make-up, Visual Effects. And many other prizes including nomination for Academy Award.

Program

Světozor (Praha) Buy Tue 09.4. 18:00
Kino Pilotů (Praha) Buy Wed 10.4. 17:30

Program

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