Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Razie Mansori, Babak Karimi, Adel Yaraghi • 2020 • 136 minutes
Inspired by a real-life tragedy, the infamous Cinema Rex fire in 1978 that triggered the Iranian Revolution, Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's mind-bending mystery leapfrogs between past and present, fact and fiction to create an unforgettable picture of Time not as a straight line, but as an elastic, constantly spinning Moebius strip.
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Time Of Moulting
Directed by Sabrina Mertens • Drama • With Zelda Espenschied, Miriam Schiwek, Freya Kreutzkam • 2023 • 82 minutes
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Watchtower
Directed by Pelin Esmer • Drama • With Olgun Simsek, Nilay Erdönmez • 2012 • 96 minutes
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