Border (2018)

Original title

Gräns

Directed by

Ali Abbasi

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, romance film, crime film, thriller film

Country

Denmark, Sweden

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 929 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A customs officer with a strange ability to sense people's shame and guilt discovers that she is not fully human. As she unravels her own origins, she gets drawn into a dark and dangerous world.

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What happens

Border (Swedish: Gräns) is a 2018 Swedish fantasy film directed by Ali Abbasi with a screenplay by Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf and John Ajvide Lindqvist based on the short story of the same name by Lindqvist from his anthology Let the Old Dreams Die. It won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards but was not nominated. However, it was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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