''Train Station'' is a multi-director feature film from

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, the filmmaking team that created '' The Owner''.

Plot

''Train Station'' follows a single character, known only as "The Person in Brown", played by 40 actors who vary in age, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Along the character's journey, they are presented with a series of choices - some minor, some life-altering. Each time a selection is made, the film switches to a new cast in a new city, and the story continues, helmed by a new director. Cities include

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, Bogota,

Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

and 20 others across five continents. ''Train Station'' unites cultures and breaks language barriers, reminding us that we all live in the same world full of diversity, options and consequences.

Reception

Critical reception has been positive. PopCultureBeast called it "the definition of collaborative experimentation in cinema"

Festivals

** The film premiered at the 2015

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on November 7 in East Lansing, Michigan, US. ** East Lansing (MI) Film Festival; Sudan Independent Film Festival;

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;

DC Independent Film Festival The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) is a film festival in Washington, D.C. Launched in 1999, DCIFF exhibits features, animation, shorts and documentaries from around the world, focusing on cutting-edge ideas, new visions and advances in the c ...

; Riverside (CA) International Film Festival; Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival (Winner, Best Feature); Cordoba Film Festival; Blackstar International Film Festival (Ghana); "The Goddess on the Throne" Film Festival (Kosovo; Winner, Best Feature); BALINALE International Film Festival (Bali);

Kansas International Film Festival The Kansas International Film Festival (KIFF) is a non-profit Kansas-based organization that promotes independent and vintage cinema through film expos. The festival is held every fall. In 2001, KIFF received a 501(c)(3) designation under the co ...

(Winner, Best Feature); Casa Asia Film Week (Barcelona);

Miami International Film Festival The Miami Film Festival (formerly Miami International Film Festival) is an annual film festival in Miami, Florida, that showcases independent American and international films with a special focus on Ibero-American films. The competitive film fest ...

(Winner, Best Feature Film for April 2016);

Calcutta International Cult Film Festival Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, commer ...

(Winner, Best Narrative Feature for November 2016); Pune Independent Film Festival (India)

Cast

# Xavier Agudo # Lance Alan # Ryan Bajornas # Surya Balakrishnan # Nicola Barnaba # Petras Baronas # Juliane Block # Leroux Botha # Julia Caiuby # Gregory Cattell # Therese Cayaba # David Cerqueiro # Diane Cheklich # Violetta D'Agata # Felix A. Dausend # Tiago P. de Carvalho # Hesam Dehghani # Mahmoud ElsarrajMahmoud Elsarraj: Train Station, Man in brown sedan segment
# Giovanni Esposito # Todd Felderstein # Ingrid Franchi # Yango Gonzalez # Patrick Gorman # Vania Ivanova # Yosef Khouwes # George Korgianitis # Chris Korte # Joycelyn Lee # Craig Lines # Alan Madlane # Michael Vincent Mercado # Athanasia Michopoulou # Daniel Montoya # Omer Moutasim # Patrick O'Connor Cronin # Marc Oberdorfer # Aditya Powar # Tony Pietra # Kevin Rumley # Adam Ruszkowski # Andrés Sandoval # Guillem Serrano # Marty Shea # Robert Skrok # Gustavo Valezzi

References