CINEOS Premiere

Taste of Cherry

A man drives the dusty hills above Tehran asking strangers to help him die — and the film becomes a quiet, circling argument about whether one small taste of the ordinary world is reason enough to stay alive.

It withholds almost everything — his reasons, his feelings, even confirmation of what finally happens — and traps you in the car beside a stranger's death wish with no way to look away. The pressure builds and never discharges; instead the film ruptures its own frame and leaves you holding it. What lingers is not grief but an unresolved ache that keeps returning, like the memory of a taste.