Iranian Cinema
A Time for Drunken Horses
زمانی برای مستی اسبها
Bahman Ghobadi·2000·Kurdish, Persian
Kurdish children smuggle goods on mules across the Iran-Iraq border to save their disabled brother.
Ghobadi's Drunken Horses follows children smuggling goods on mules fed alcohol to survive freezing passes. Shot with non-professionals in his hometown. Camera d'Or at Cannes.
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