This is perhaps the single best international short film ever made. It's gripping, emotionally riveting, and does the impossible: puts us in the position of a young Iranian girl in an airport in Luxembourg and forces us to empathize with her incredibly vulnerable circumstance and the few options she's afforded.
Cyrush Neshvad ratchets up the dramatic tension the way great suspense masters like Hitchcock, Kubrick and the Coens' do: by merely tossing us Direct Imagery for us to interpret. As Billy Wilder said "Make the audience add "A plus B equals C" and they'll love you.
I hate that this film exists in our world.
But I feel changed and will remember it always.
Cyrush Neshvad ratchets up the dramatic tension the way great suspense masters like Hitchcock, Kubrick and the Coens' do: by merely tossing us Direct Imagery for us to interpret. As Billy Wilder said "Make the audience add "A plus B equals C" and they'll love you.
I hate that this film exists in our world.
But I feel changed and will remember it always.