Those Three

A trio of stoic friends set out to claim their collective freedom in first-time director/screenwriter Naghi Nemati's minimal debut drama. As a group of Iranian soldiers take part in training exercises against a bleak and wintry backdrop, three of the soldiers spontaneously break away without permission. Eventually, vast landscapes are swallowed up by a dense fog, and after making the acquaintance of a pregnant woman who was smuggled across the border, the three men are forced to accept the cruel hand that fate has dealt them.