Critical Zone
Southeast Asian Premiere
Ali AHMADZADEH Iran, Germany 2023 98 min M18 (Drug Use and Coarse Language)
In this delirious fantasia of after-dark Tehran, a drug dealer rendezvouses through the underworld to mend troubled souls.
The night has just begun for Amir when he collects his share of drugs from a covert tunnel passage. Upon reaching home, he falls into a familiar routine of repackaging cannabis and leisurely sampling its potency. Guided by the didactic voice of his GPS, Amir does the rounds through Tehran’s nightscape. He deals drugs, reckons with his own woes, meets and soothes tormented souls, all while basking in glimmers of freedom before dawn.
A drama shot in secret without the permission of the regime, Critical Zone turns this precarity into a hallucinatory portrayal of the cross-currents in contemporary Iran. In this filmic world, social phenomena such as drug use resist easy judgements.
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
7 Dec, Thu 9:00PM / 98 min
Golden Village x The Projector at Cineleisure, Hall 2
AT THE FEST!
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Critical Zone
Mantagheye Bohrani
Ali AHMADZADEH
Iran, Germany
2023
Farsi
English
98 min
M18 (Drug Use and Coarse Language)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Ali AHMADZADEH
A Tehran native with formal training in music, Ali AHMADZADEH is a writer-director whose work typically spotlights alternative portraits of the younger generations of Iranians. In his home country, Ahmadzadeh is officially banned from making films. Critical Zone is his third publicly-released feature and clinched Locarno’s top prize, the Golden Leopard.
Amir POUSTI
Shirin ABEDINIRAD
Maryam SADEGHIYAN
Ali AHMADZADEH
Sina Ataeian DENA
Ali AHMADZADEH
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