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Rhino Season

2012 · 88 min

A slow, sorrowful plunge into memory and loss, where poetry and pain blur across decades, leaving a quiet ache that lingers.

Overview: Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
How it feels: Melancholic, dark, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, love, memory, grief
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
love
memory
grief
survival
Places: big city
prison
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild