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MOVIE · 2024

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ComedyDrama89 min

In a winter world somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money sealed beneath the sidewalk ice and start figuring out how to get it out. Elsewhere, Massoud leads a bewildered group of tourists through Winnipeg’s historic sites, while Matthew, played by Matthew Rankin, quits his job with the Québec government and heads off to visit his estranged mother. Pirouz Nemati and Amir Amiri are among the faces moving through these intersecting stories, where snowy streets, civic spaces, and small errands gradually take on a slightly uncanny shape.

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