Scarecrowber: Border
October 6 - 19, 2024
Tina (Eva Melander) is a customs inspector in remote Sweden with a preternatural ability to smell people’s emotions—especially fear. This makes her an expert at her job but also an outsider. Tina doesn’t know how she has developed her abilities and doesn’t seem to share them with anyone else. Her only moments of real joy and connection are her experiences with the wilderness—which offers itself in colorful abundance in the forest region where she lives. One day at work she meets Vore (Eero Milonoff), the first person she’s ever seen who looks like her. She recognizes Vore’s scent and discovers even more tantalizing similarities between them when doing a customs search. Their encounter allows Tina to question her body and her identity in new ways, leading to a moment of true elation when her real nature is revealed. —Megan McNelis
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Customs officer Tina is known for her extraordinary sense of smell. It's almost as if she can sniff out the guilt on anyone hiding something. But when Vore, a suspicious-looking man, walks past her, her abilities are challenged for the first time ever. Tina can sense Vore is hiding something she can't identify. Even worse, she feels a strange attraction to him. As Tina develops a special bond with Vore and discovers his true identity, she also realizes the truth about herself.
- Original Language Title: Gräns
- Director: Ali Abbasi
- Principal Cast: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom
- Country: Sweden, Denmark
- Year: 2018
- Running Time: 110 min.
- Producer: Nina Bisgaard Piodor Gustafsson Petra Jonsson
- Screenplay: Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf
- Cinematographers: Nadim Carlsen
- Editors: Olivia Neergaard-Holm Anders Skov
- Music: Christoffer Beg, Martin Derkov
- Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2018 (Un Certain Regard) Oscars 2019 (Foreign Language Film - Official Selection)
- Filmography: Holy Spider (2022), The Apprentice (2024), Shelley (2016)
- Language: Swedish
- Format: DCP
- US Distributor: NEON