Border

Grans

59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

The life of a customs officer with an incredibly acute sense of smell takes an unexpected turn when she meets a dark stranger, who carries a terrible revelation about her own existence in his luggage. A film that challenges any border between film genres, cinema and other arts, reality and absurdity, or the intimate and the strange, based on a novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist (author of Let the Right One In).

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Ali Abbasi
Script: Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf, John Ajvide Lindqvist
Cinematography: Nadim Carlsen
Editing: Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Anders Skov
Sound: Christian Holm
Music: Christoffer Berg, Martin Dirkov
Actors: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén, Sten Ljunggren, Kjell Wilhelmsen, Rakel Wärmländer, Andreas Kundler, Matti Boustedt
Production: Meta Film Stockholm, Black Spark Film & TV, Karnfilm Production
Producers: Nina Bisgaard, Piodor Gustafsson, Petra Jönsson
Co-production: Film I Vast, Meta Film DK, Copenhagen Film Fund
Art Direction: Frida Hoas
Costumes: Elsa Fischer
Executive producer: Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen, Tomas Eskilsson, Louis Tisné, Daniel Sachs, Hakan Petterson, Anna Croneman, Peter Nyren, Thomas Gammeltoft, Erika Wasserman
Camera: Benjamin Zadig
Make Up: Göran Lundström
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Sweden, Denmark
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 108'
Contact: Films Boutique, contact@filmsboutique.com
Awards/Distinctions: Un Certain Regard Award – Cannes FF 2018 Gabriel Sherover Foundation Award, Best International Film, Honorable Mention – Jerusalem FF 2018 CineVision Award, Best Film by An Emerging Director – Munich FF 2018

Ali Abbasi

Filmography

2011 M for Markus (short)
2016 Shelley
2018 Gräns | Border