MANTAGHEYE BOHRANI (Critical Zone)

Hidden cameras, no filming permits, the non-professional actors are filmed from a distance with zoom lenses, the director has been banned from leaving the country. This film is often uncomfortable. A drug courier drives through Tehran in a Peugeot 206 to deliver drugs to various people and secure supplies. Ali Ahmadzadeh turns this premise into an urban thriller-drama that makes the feeling of high tension within Iranian society - suppressed by many - intensely palpable. The film's experimental use of sound is particularly effective.