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Introduction

Iran, Germany / 2023 / 99 min
Director：Ali AHMADZADEH

A lone man meanders at night through the streets of Tehran in his car, guided by the voice coming from his GPS. He is Amir, a drug dealer. Surrounded by the dark of night and the lights of the city he meets and welcomes into his car customers from all walks of life: residents of an old-age home, a stewardess just returned to Iran, transexual prostitutes working in the streets, and a mother trying to wrest her son from the throes of drug addiction. This film, the third feature from director Ali AHMADZADEH whose "Atomic Heart" (2015) showed in the Berlinale Forum, employs a surreal style that includes elements of documentary directly. It intuitively depicts the beneath-the-surface smouldering in a relentlessly oppressed society, and the suffering and desires of the younger generation and the people of today. Despite Iranian authorities banning the director from exiting the country, this film still took the Golden Leopard Award (the grand prize) at the Locarno Film Festival.

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