The Runner: Iranian Film retrospective at the REX cinema

Sixty years after the Iranian New Wave, 46 years after the revolution, 9 years after Abbas Kiarostami's death and 2 years after the assassination of Dariush Mehrjui, the REX cinema is offering the opportunity to compare pre- and post-revolutionary films from Iran and to discover new connections.

Meeting time allows us 15 minutes before the film starts to find each other - please be on time so we can get seats together. In Farsi with English subtitles.

=========================
Today's movie, from Wikipedia: The Runner is a 1984 Iranian film by Amir Naderi. The film was one of the first post-revolutionary Iranian films screened and celebrated internationally. Inspired by the director’s own boyhood, it sets the tone for many of the films that followed: realism, children's perspective of the world, innocence, gentleness, set in poor neighbourhoods, exposing great disparities in wealth, resting much of the film on the shoulders of one young actor, using children's lives as analogies for, or explicit expositions of, the problems of the adult world.

The film is critically acclaimed for presenting an authentic image of the encounter with modernity in Iranian cinema.