دونده

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)