Sunshine Express

Sunshine Express

Location

Curzon Hoxton (Curzon Screen 2)

Date & Time

June 7, 2025, 9:00 - 10:50 PM

About

Premiere Status: UK Premiere

Format: Feature Film

Strand: Visionaries

Country: Sweden, Iran

Genres: Drama - Fantasy

Language: farsi

Description

A group of strangers signs up to take a ride aboard a fake train headed to the fictional island of Hernmia. The catch? They all agree to enter the train not as themselves, but as carefully designed characters in a role-playing game. This premise, which kicks off Sunshine Express, proves a fertile allegory to examine the cogs of totalitarian systems and how authoritarianism often survives through not only shared complicity but a cruelly enforced sense of otherness. By drinking from the fountains of Bong Joon-ho and Jafar Panahi, Navaee crafts a tense, deeply nuanced political thriller in this promising feature debut. Rafa Sales Ross

Credits

Director:

AmirAli Navaee

Screenwriter:

AmirAli Navaee

Producers:

Sina Sharbafi, Babak Parham

Other Screenings

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Wednesday, Jun 4th 8:45 - 10:50 PM - (2 hours 5 mins)Rich Mix (Rich Mix Screen 3)

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