The winner of the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, this film contains elements of Nordic folklore, supernatural horror, social realism, noir and romance. The astounding and engaging Border focuses on the story of Tina an unusual-looking female border guard with a strange talent for smelling human emotions, sniffing out smugglers, pedophiles and various criminal behaviors. Tina's reality is overturned when she meets a strange, yet suspicious man with a smell that confounds her detection. But through her affections for Vore, Tina is forced to face certain moral quandaries for humankind and confront disconcerting insights about herself.
Directed by Ali Abissi, 2018, Sweden, 110 min.