Sunshine Express
Date & Time
June 7, 2025, 9:00 - 10:50 PM
About
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Format: Feature Film
Strand: Visionaries
Country: Sweden, Iran
Genres: Drama - Fantasy
Language: farsi
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Description
A group of strangers signs up to take a ride aboard a fake train headed to the fictional island of Hernmia. The catch? They all agree to enter the train not as themselves, but as carefully designed characters in a role-playing game. This premise, which kicks off Sunshine Express, proves a fertile allegory to examine the cogs of totalitarian systems and how authoritarianism often survives through not only shared complicity but a cruelly enforced sense of otherness. By drinking from the fountains of Bong Joon-ho and Jafar Panahi, Navaee crafts a tense, deeply nuanced political thriller in this promising feature debut. Rafa Sales Ross
Credits
Director: | AmirAli Navaee |
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Screenwriter: | AmirAli Navaee |
Producers: | Sina Sharbafi, Babak Parham |
