Completed - ENGLISH - Thriller, Crime, Drama - 77 minutes
Having secured a decent job in a small Scottish town, a mysterious foreigner meets a group of caring (if rough-around-the-edges) friends and a love interest, seeming on the verge of assimilation only have his dark, questionable past catch up to him.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Kaweh MODIRI Writer(s) : Kaweh MODIRI Cast : Sohrab BAYAT, Eddie PATON, Lily SZRAMKO Producer(s) : Raymond VAN DER KAAIJ
Between 9 and 5 the people in the town of Forres don’t work, they dissolve into the pubs, where they enjoy the company of a good pint and gossip with their neighbors about their own troubled pasts. On one crisp day a stranger arrives, Bodkin Ras has come to the remote town to lie low and hide from a crime gone awry. Just as the town starts to welcome him as their own and despite Bodkin Ras’ attempts to change, his destructive nature leaks in and he repeats the violent mistakes of his past.
Country(ies) : NETHERLANDS
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Rotterdam IFFR 2016 (FIPRESCI Prize )SXSW 2016