Synopse

Two sisters and a funeral: a dark Iranian comedy combines the weird humour of the Coen brothers with the laconic narrative of Kaurismäki. A brother and his two sisters have set up a mushroom farm and hope to make a fortune with their psychedelic wares. The brother is the boss and tyrannizes his sisters – one a mouselike autist, the other the owner of a beauty salon. On an impulse, the sisters get rid of their brother and tell everyone he’s emigrated to Germany. But truth and lie increasingly get in each other’s way – and the sisters’ fear of being found out approaches paranoia: what if their brother returns to take revenge?

Regie

KAVEH MAZAHERI (*1981 in Teheran) studied railway engineering and has been making films since 2005. His short Retouch (2017) won more than 80 international prizes. Botox is his debut feature and won prizes at the Torino Film Festival 2020 for Best Film and Best Camerawork.

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