Special Program: Filmmaker in Focus: Amir NADERI

USA / 2018 / 88 min.
Director: Amir NADERI

Mitch is a 22-year-old projectionist who works at an aging movie theater that will shortly close down. He decides to screen one last film there before it is rebuilt as a multiplex theater. Looking out from the projection booth's window, he can see another Mitch on the screen. There, his other self is a clerk at a small shop living a dull existence, but that life is changed by the appearance of a young girl who comes to buy a hat. However, the young girl is called away by someone on a mobile phone and disappears.... The new film by Amir NADERI is the first since "Vegas" (2008) to be shot in America. Blending reality with fantasy as well as homages to cinema, it could be called a modern day fairy tale. The appearance of Jacqueline BISSET is also a highlight.