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A Time for Drunken Horses

Zamani barayé masti asbha

2000

Orphaned in a harsh Kurdish village on the Iran-Iraq border, five children fend for themselves, the eldest smuggling goods across the treacherous mountains to pay for his gravely ill little brother's surgery. Bahman Ghobadi's stark, unforgettable debut.

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