A Time for Drunken Horses
2000·Iran·80 min.
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When the youngest boy of a destitute Iranian Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. In desperation, the eldest sister agrees to marry an Iraqi man, willing to care for the brother. At the border exchange, however, the family of the Iraqi man rejects the sick boy, leaving the siblings in a harrowing race against time.
DirectorBahman Ghobadi
ScreenwriterBahman Ghobadi
MusicHossein Alizadeh
CinematographySaed Nikzat
Original titleZamani barayé masti asbha (A Time for Drunken Horses)