Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
7.9
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450 votes
“A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.”

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Mehrdad Ahankhah
Mehrdad Ahankhah
Self