High as a horse

摘要

Scarcely known, even to film buffs, Bahman Ghobadi is in the vanguard of a new and exciting generation of film makers from Iran. He comes from Iranian Kurdistan and his first feature film, "A Time for Drunken Horses", pushes Iranian cinema on to fresh ground, almost literally. The harrowing story involves a smuggling trek over mountains so steep and perilous that the horses have to be plied with alcohol to get them through the journey.