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The latest film from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (FISH & CAT, CARELESS CRIME) is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like thriller about reality and illusion, doubles and doppelgängers and uncanny synchronicities, involving stories-within-stories set during production of a film plagued by a prop gun that is hellbent on revenge
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Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (2025)
139 min
A director is remaking a classic Iranian film in Tajikistan. The studio armorer is worried that the gun they intend to use is not a prop gun, and fears the consequences. A young woman arrives at the location insisting that she be given an audition. At the same time, In another part of town, Sara, recently recovered from a car crash, suddenly realises that her accident was all part of a conspiracy. These people’s destinies inevitably intertwine.