East of the West - Competition 2018 / Amir / Iran 2018
Now in his thirties, Amir is beleaguered by other peoples’ problems. His friend Ali’s ex-wife and son have gone missing, his sister is desperately trying to break away from the family, and his parents are trying to keep the family together. Amir is a film about contemporary Iran, about a generation whose private lives are determined more by the rules of society than by their own will.
We meet 30-something Amir at a point in his life where he has become the epicentre of other people’s problems. His friend’s ex-wife has gone missing, having threatened to leave the country with the couple’s son; his grown-up sister is desperate to leave home despite their parents’ fierce efforts to keep the family together. It isn’t clear whether Amir intends to help all of them, but no-one’s asking him to… Nima Eghlima’s feature debut is a film about a contemporary Iranian generation that is subject to so many rules there’s no room for free will. Using resourceful image-framing and precision camerawork he articulates issues that are still taboo, but that doesn’t make them any less pressing.
Anna Kořínek
106 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Nima Eghlima
/ Screenplay Nima Eghlima
/ Dir. of Photography Adib Sobhani
/ Music Ali Azhari Navid Arbabian
/ Editor Mastaneh Mohajer
/ Art Director Nima Eghlima
/ Producer Ziya Hashemi
/ Cast Milad Keymaram
/ Sales Eli Image
Nima Eghlima (b. 1982, Iran). Filmography: Rima (short), Root (short), Passage (short)
Eli Image
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Iran
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Elaheh Nobakht
Distributor, Producer
Nima Eghlima
Film Director
Milad Keymaram
Actor
Arash Hosseini
Other
Soroush Hosseini
Other
Mastaneh Mohajer
Film Editor
Kasra Mahboobi
Actor
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