Nocturnal

A disorienting, image-driven plunge into grief and uncertainty, where reality keeps slipping and the tension rarely lets go.

Directed by

Keivan Alimohammadi, Omid Bonakdar

Genres

Drama, Thriller

Starring

Hedie Tehrani, Kamand Amirsoleimani, Setare Eskandari

Overview

A young woman tries to deal with the insight that her brother is dying. Shabnam is a photographer and sister of a famous war photographer, Hamed. Just before she goes to a party, she is told that the brother has been injured and is in hospital. Shabnam is dragged into a series of strange events, where the boundary between rus and reality is blurred. The debuting feature film directors are also film and art critics in Iran, Bonakdar himself artist - hardly surprising given the film's strong image awareness. It also has to be overlooked with the bit-wise banal depictions of cocaine scrambling and dangerous men.

How it feels

Tense, melancholic, eerie and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Grief, identity, isolation, death

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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