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“Before Eleven”
A filmmaker has only until 11 p.m. to finish the final scene of his film and receive his payment. But unexpected crises begin, dragging the protagonist into chaos
Status
Released
Original Language
FA
Budget
$100,000
Revenue
$100,000

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.