What happens when your window to the world gets bricked over — literally and spiritually?
Kurdish composer Boran is no longer able to see the ocean, obstructed by a new building, and a tragedy befalls him…
Direction
Ghobadi frames Istanbul as both sanctuary and prison.
Cinematography
The absent ocean haunts every cramped interior shot.
Score
Boran's unfinished compositions echo his blocked horizon.
Director
Bahman Ghobadi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ghobadi shot this during his own exile from Iran, making Boran's blocked view a mirror of the director's literal banishment from filming in his homeland.
The 'four walls' title nods to 1950s Iranian 'four-wall' cinema — domestic dramas where women's worlds were physically constrained, here updated for male artistic crisis.
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