Tehran cinemas start screening Amir Naderi’s ‘Monte’

Dedicated to screening art films, Tehran’s Art and Experience Cinema Group has started screening ‘Monte’ by Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi.

The US-based Naderi has filmed the 105-minute drama in the mountainous regions of Alto Adige and Friuli, Italy.

Naderi received the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in Italy.

The prestigious award was conferred to him during a ceremony in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema) prior to the screening of his ‘Monte’.

“Naderi gave a fundamental impetus to the birth of New Iranian Cinema during the 1970s and 80s with a number of masterpieces destined to leave their mark on the history of cinema,” Alberto Barbera, director of the Venice Film Festival said.

“Every film he has made clearly displays the nucleus of an identical obsession that transcends the principle of reality in order to force individuals beyond their own limits,” he added.

Starring Andrea Sartoretti and Claudia Potenza, ‘Monte’ narrates the story of a man who tries to bring the sunlight into his village, where his family is barely able to survive because of the prevailing darkness.

Some of Naderi’s works include ‘Harmonica’ (1970), ‘Waiting’ (1974), ‘The Runner’ (1985), ‘Water, Wind, Soil’ (1989), ‘Sound Barrier’ (2005) and ‘Cut’ (2011).

Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award is dedicated to personalities who have made a significant contribution to contemporary cinema.

MG/AI