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"Travellers"
1992
Directed by Bahram Beyzai

The story of a wedding ceremony which turns into a funeral wake when the bride's sister and her entire family are killed in a traffic accident. The film is "a brilliant exposition of the themes of death and predestination…[it] incorporates most of Beyzai's stylistic and thematic preoccupations--the alienated identity, theatrical setups, camerawork, sound effects, music, multiplicity of characters, time lapses, etc.--all brought together and unified into a homogeneous whole by the director's unfailing overall control" (International Film Guide). Farsi with English subtitles. 90 minutes.