The Buffalo

A couple, Shokufeh and Iman who plan to flee Iran travel to the port city of Anzali to meet a man who is to smuggle them across the border. They await him by the side of a lagoon. They accidentally drop their bag of money and jewelry into the lagoon. Iman tries to jump in and find the bag but drowns in the process. A diver called Bahram the Buffalo is assigned to find Iman’s body in the lagoon and a relationship begins to develop between him and Shokufeh…

Director: Kaveh Sajadi Hoseini

Cast: Parviz Parastouei, Soheila Golestani, Pantea Panahiha, Houman Seyyedi, Milad Shah Hosseini

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.