In Persian and Arabic, the title "Majnuni" translates as a form of longing that makes a lover go insane. In this film, we follow a modern-day Majnun named Adnan, who stalks a broken family through the night of a war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia i Herzegovina. As he stalks further, he snaps into a musical fugue state where his identity becomes tangled in the lives he is following. Arriving at moments of androgynous punk, a holy sense of smell, & Sevda folk-song, Adnan is set on a possessed path toward Nela, his haunting old love.

"In Majnuni, the sharp edges of a family’s emotional disintegration are juxtaposed with the wandering brushstrokes of the lead character’s subjective reality, unfolding in sumptuous long takes across the nighttime streets of Sarajevo. Director Kouros Alaghband has a highly personal and uncompromising approach to filmmaking that’s richly rewarding to those willing to come along for the ride. His languorous, elegant, fluid shooting style displays an exquisite sense of color and composition in this oneiric story about a man’s fractured and obsessive psyche."

—Paul Sbrizzi, Programming Co-Captain