Screenwriter · Director

Amir Naderi

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13:00: average
26 min: in total

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The Experience

Abbas Kiarostami · 1973

Abbas Kiarostami’s 1973 debut is a spare, fifty-three-minute drama following Mamad, an orphaned teenager working and sleeping in a Tehran photographic studio. After developing a quiet, unreciprocated attachment to a girl from a wealthier background, he visits her home to ask for work — and is met with silent refusal. Shot with minimal intervention and performed with understated precision by Mostafa Tari, the film observes social hierarchy not as theme but as atmosphere: embedded in gesture, architecture, and silence.

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The Runner

Amir Naderi · 1984

Amir Naderi’s 1984 Iranian drama follows Amiro, an orphan surviving alone in Abadan, as he cycles through menial jobs — collecting bottles, selling ice, mending shoes — while fixating on ships and planes as distant, unreachable horizons. Shot in sun-bleached natural light with minimal dialogue and no score, the film anchors its realism in physical detail: the weight of ice, the burn of sun, the rhythm of running. Its power lies in sustained attention to endurance as routine, not metaphor.