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8:30 PM
دونده The Runner
Film Screening & Q&A|Directed by Amir Naderi
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Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
- Language Farsi with English Subtitles
- Price 10 €
Amir Naderi’s autobiographical masterpiece about Amiro, an orphaned teenager trying to better his life by learning to read, was the first post-revolutionary Iranian film to be seen internationally. It marked the beginning of a steady wave of great films to emerge from the country in the 1980s and 90s. Breathtakingly edited by Iranian New Wave pioneer, director and writer Bahram Beyzaie, the film remains both open and abstract as it follows its protagonist’s struggle to understand and navigate a world full of hostility and indifference. (Ehsan Khoshbakht)
With the kind support of the DFFB and the Goethe-Institut in Exile.
Panelists
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Amir Naderi
Amir Naderi began his career in the 1970s, a pivotal period in Iranian cinema, where his raw portrayals of everyday urban life introduced a lasting cinematic language across both fiction and documentary forms. Harmonica (1974) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, marking his first international recognition, followed in the 1980s by The Runner (1984) and Water, Wind, Dust (1989), films that brought Iranian cinema broad international visibility. The Runner premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and established Naderi as a major voice in world cinema. After relocating to the United States in the early 1990s, he continued working independently, with films at major festivals including Venice, Cannes, Toronto, and Busan, and his work presented in retrospectives at institutions such as Film at Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the National Museum of Cinema Turin.
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Afsun Moshiry
Afsun Moshiry was born in Shiraz, Iran and moved to Germany in 1989. Growing up in Baden Württemberg, she completed a Hons. Bachelor of Arts degree at Northumbria University in Uk. At Media Atelier in Berlin and Mainz she started working on a Series with a focus on contemporary sound art. She worked at Int. Short Film Festival Berlin (Interfilm) on the selection committee and curated her first film program for EICTV which screened as part of Interfilm with Maike Mia Höhne as a guest. In 2017, she moved back to Iran and has since that period worked as a curator and producer on film programs and cultural events in partnership with organisations such as Goethe Institut, Berlinale Shorts, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Int. short film Festival Berlin (Interfilm), Arsenal für Film und Videokunst e.V. Forum Expanded, the cultural department of German Embassy, Austrian Cultural Forum, Int. Fajr Film Festival, Art & Experience Institute, Int. Children and Youth Film Festival Isfahan, and Int. Short film Fest Tehran. In 2018 she founded Film Focus to teach and curate film programs for audiences with restricted access to the international film markets.
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Location
Lindower Str. 20/22
Haus C
13347 Berlin
Germany
Location
Lindower Str. 20/22
Haus C
13347 Berlin
Germany
