A Time for Drunken Horses

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Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.
Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini.
After their father dies, a family of five is forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when twelve-year-old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother Madi needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. The family must go to any length to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor to get them to work.
DVD, widescreen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Border Kids Without Parents submitted by BickfordT on July 15, 2011, 8:04am This film is a tough one. I think the English translation should be drunken mules, not drunken horses. I found myself rooting for the kids and shivering in the cold. Watched the film in the middle of summer and it made me cold. On the back cover it says that these kids are not professional actors. Um, they outperform the adults. The way the little sister loves her brother(s) melts my heart. Favorite scene: the kids sleeping. I wonder how closely this film tells the story of the social conditions in Iran.