A man with endangered donkey blood, a honey-dripping mom, and pollination cults—this mockumentary is unhinged.
Tales of a man who carries a Persian Onager in his blood, a mother who drips honey from her body, and a writer who believes pollination is the key to salvation.
Direction
Javaheri's deadpan commitment to the absurd elevates every grotesque image.
Writing
Dialogue walks a razor's edge between profound and profoundly stupid.
Director
Amir Hossein Javaheri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Persian onager is critically endangered—using it as metaphor for disappearing Iranian rural identity adds biting subtext.
The 'film critic' character played by Jalali appears to be roasting the very festival circuit that would program this—meta-commentary or defensive maneuver?
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