Awards (click to collapse)
Swedish Film Institute, Sweden (2002) – Winner: Documentary FF Prize
Mikrokino Film Festival, Serbia (2003) – Nominated: Best Documentary
An intriguing glimpse of a community of Iranian heroin addicts living in a cemetery. Outcasts from society, these men and women have found a place where they can ride their ecstatic dreams while huddling in underground tombs and sunken graves, or lying supine on sun-baked slabs. Some are resigned to an imminent death, even seeking to hasten it, while others are obsessed with becoming clean. One man plans to finance a stint in rehab by selling a kidney. But this is Iran, a country where a woman can be stoned to death for prostituting herself (for her husband’s habit), and a cloud of persecution hangs over everything. A haunting vision of the living dead who inhabit the fringes of a repressive society.
Previous Festivals
Mikrokino Film Festival, Serbia (2003)
