BORDER
DRAMA, FANTASY | SWEDISH |110 MIN
Sweden’s entry for the Oscars® and from the writer of Let the Right One In, BORDER is a film like no other. Tina (Eva Melander) is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she is forced to confront hugely disturbing insights about herself and humankind.
DIRECTOR Ali Abbasi
WRITERS Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf, John Ajvide Lindqvist
CAST Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorrson
UK release supported by the Creative Europe: MEDIA programme
“Writer-director Ali Abbasi has crafted something eerie and rather wonderful with this pungent allegory of outsiderdom”
★★★★★
— TIME OUT
“Eva Melander plays one of the richest and most original characters you will encounter in any film this year”
★★★★
— THE INDEPENDENT
“Something between a superhero origin myth, a cop procedural
and a body-horror romance”
★★★★
— THE GUARDIAN
“UNCOMPROMISINGLY WEIRD… A CURIOUSLY REWARDING EXPERIENCE”
★★★★
— EMPIRE
FESTIVALS + AWARDS
91st Academy Awards ®- Swedish Entry for Best Foreign Language Film; Nominee for Best Hair & Make-Up
Cannes Film Festival - Winner “Un Certain Regard Grand Prize”
European Film Awards - Winner “Best Visual Effects” Nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenwriters
Swedish Guldebagge Film Awards - Winner of Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Sound Design, and Best Make-up
Norwegian Film Awards - Winner “Film Critics Award”
Cork Film Festival - Winner “Spirit of the Festival Award”
BFI London Film Festival - Official Selection “Dare Gala”
Palm Springs Film Festival - Winner “Director to Watch”
Hamptons International Film Festival - Honorable Mention “Golden Starfish”
Los Angeles Film Festival - Winner “Best Film”
Munich Film Festival - Winner “Best Film by an Emerging Director”