| Details | In Person: Madjid Niroumand, actor
Tickets: ffi2023.eventive.org/films
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/752238228
In this “gem of the Iranian new wave” (J. Hoberman, New York Times), Amiro is an illiterate eleven-year-old orphan living alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and diving for deposit bottles, while being bullied by both adults and competing older kids. But he finds solace by dreaming about departing cargo ships and airplanes and by running...seemingly to nowhere. Gorgeously restored with improved subtitles, you can finally see this “work of astonishing power and simplicity” (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times) as it was meant to be seen. Description adapted from Rialto Pictures. (Dir.: Amir Naderi, Iran, 1984, 91 min., DCP, Persian with English subtitles)
Image courtesy of Rialto Pictures |
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