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Inside Amir<\/strong> (Daroon-e Amir)<\/strong>
by Amir Azizi<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Iran | 2025 | 103′ | Color<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards:<\/strong>
GdA Director\u2019s Award<\/strong> at Giornate degli Autori<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festivals:<\/strong>
Giornate degli Autori – 2025 (Competition)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the film:<\/strong>
Inside Amir<\/em>\u00a0follows a young man in Tehran on the verge of emigrating. Amid scattered memories, unfinished conversations, and slow-moving days, he faces a decision he hasn\u2019t fully made yet: to leave or to stay. The only thing he refuses to part with is his bicycle \u2013 a companion through the city\u2019s streets and a symbol of his past. As his departure to join Tara, his girlfriend now in Italy, grows closer, we learn how years ago, their relationship kept him from joining a family trip that ended in tragedy. Tara became more than a partner \u2013 she came to represent the life he was spared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the director:<\/strong>
Amir Azizi\u00a0(Ahvaz, Iran, 1984) began his career in film in 2003. He worked as a director\u2019s assistant with renowned Iranian filmmakers including Kianoush Ayari and Rakhshan Banietemad. He directed several short films, such as\u00a0The Idiot\u00a0(2007),\u00a0Two Cold Meals for One Person\u00a0(2009), and\u00a0Family Portrait\u00a0(2010), which all screened at national and international festivals. His documentaries,\u00a0Nature and Cities of Iran\u00a0(2013),\u00a0Wolf\u00a0(2018), and\u00a0Home\u00a0(2022) focus on local and environmental themes and received critical acclaim. His first feature,\u00a0Temporary\u00a0(2015), was screened at the Beijing International Film Festival and the Med Film Festival in Rome, winning a Special Jury Prize. His second feature,\u00a0Two Dogs<\/em>\u00a0(2020), competed at Warsaw and won awards at Bangalore and other festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press:<\/strong>
– A keen observation on male vulnerability,\u00a0Inside Amir<\/em>\u00a0has its own rhythm and more than a tinge of melancholy while being very light on plot. The emotional trajectory of its protagonist is more important, as it follows his journey to realizing he has to let go. International Cinephile Society<\/a>
– Just as the prospect of taking root in one place imposes an uneasiness on the mind, so too does relocation prompt a restlessness of the soul. Neither are absolutes: habituation, some would say, determines the rigor of both provincial and cosmopolitan sensibilities. In Review Online<\/a>
– It may be episodic but its themes are so well connected that it never feels disjointed. Eye For Film<\/a>
– An Iranian man preparing for migration refuses to let go of his bicycle, in a meditative drama with echoes of Neorealism and Kiarostami. DMovies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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