Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (Deluxe Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] [US]

Release Date: 26/5/2026

The latest film from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (FISH & CAT, CARELESS CRIME) is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like meditation on reality and illusion, doubles and doppelgängers and uncanny synchronicities, involving stories-within-stories set during production of a film by a director named “Shahram” – already blurring the lines between film and reality.  Guns play a strange and mystical part in BLACK RABBIT:  on the film set, we meet armorer Babak, played by the great Iranian actor Babak Karimi (FISH & CAT, A SEPARATION). This production marks his 40th, and he’s paranoid he won’t get through the day without a terrible accident (his mentor was killed in an explosion on his 40th film.)  "I've discovered something important:  there's a revolver here hell bent on revenge,” he murmurs.  The other major storyline involves Sara (Hasti Mohammaï), who is kept as a prisoner inside her house by her husband while she recovers from a near-fatal car accident.  She's wrapped in bandages like Elsa Lanchester in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and gives off a foul odor from her wounds.  Slowly, fantastical elements begin to bleed through, like waking dreams intruding on the conscious world:  an enormous prop Coffee Cup moves about the set by itself; inanimate objects talk amongst themselves about the Italian gun that's arrived to take revenge; and an aspiring actress gives an audition in which she does magic, causing a white rabbit and a black rabbit to appear.  “The magic of time weaves together apparently unrelated events. A story of women seeking to escape their cocooned lives. A story of objects possessing a soul, deciding when and where to play a role. A quest to make dreams come true, linking these stories together thanks to the wonder of cinema.” – Shahram Mokri.  In Tajiki and Russian with English subtitles.

Special Features

• Three ultra-rare early Mokri short films:
  • The Dragonfly Storm (2002, 15m)
  • Limits of the Circle (2005, 15m)
  • Ando-C (2007, 15m)
• New audio commentary by film programmer and critic Tori Potenza
• New visual essay "The Maze: Entrances and Exits in Black Rabbit, White Rabbit" by Stephen Broomer (13m)
• New wrap artwork by Beth Morris

Deluxe Edition Bonus Content

• Hard slipcase featuring new artwork by Brian Level
• 60-page illustrated book
• New essay by Walter Chaw
• New essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• New essay by Michelle Kisner