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| The Runner |
The first post-revolution film to gain significant attention in the West, Amir Naderi's work has been a key influence on New Iranian cinema.
This semi-autobiographical film centres on Amiro, an illiterate 13-year-old orphan living in a rusting ruin of a ship beached on the Persian Gulf.
Produced by Kanoon's film agency (which Abbas Kiarostami co-founded) this feature proves an interesting foil to Kiarostami's own emerging style and is simultaneously an emotionally charged yet unsentimental film.
