• Director(s)

    Karim Amini

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Release date

    25/11/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    110m

  • Cast

    Bahram Afshari, Reza Bai, Mehrdad Baya

Film

Fossil

moderate violence, threat, sexual violence references, language

An Iranian pop singer falls into a decade-long coma, waking into a dangerously complicated 1980s world in this Farsi language action comedy. Emotional moments mingle with scenes of torture, shoot-outs and irreverent humour.…

An Iranian pop singer falls into a decade-long coma, waking into a dangerously complicated 1980s world in this Farsi language action comedy. Emotional moments mingle with scenes of torture, shoot-outs and irreverent humour.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

suicide and self-harm

sexual violence and sexual threat

theme

sex

discrimination

  • Director(s)

    Karim Amini

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Release date

    25/11/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    110m

  • Cast

    Bahram Afshari, Reza Bai, Mehrdad Baya

moderate violence, threat, sexual violence references, language
Classified Date:
09/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Sol Company AB
violence
Characters are hung by their wrists from chains and beaten; most of these blows land off screen. We see water and hot tea being poured over prisoners trapped in a cage. There are shoot outs in which people are shot, resulting in occasional small spurts of blood. A man is left with moderate bloody injuries over his face and body in the aftermath of a gun attack leading to a car crash. Characters slap, punch and shove one another, sometimes in slapstick scenes.
threat and horror
Characters are threatened with torture and execution by hanging; there are scenes of gun threat. A man is briefly trapped in a building that is shelled. A man pushes another's face into the water of a swimming pool, threatening to drown him.
language
There is infrequent implied strong language ('f**k') along with milder terms such as 'shit', 'bastard', 'ass', 'sons of bitches', 'screw', 'God', 'damn', 'hell' and 'Jesus'.
suicide and self-harm
A man accidentally takes another character's cyanide suicide pill, but his life is saved.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are references to a man appearing in a film titled 'The Great Rapist'; we see footage from this fictional film in which there is undetailed verbal mention of women being raped.
theme
A woman says she once experienced depression. Characters grieve for lost loved ones in scenes of emotional upset.

  • Classified date

    09/11/2023

  • Language

    Farsi