Contemporary Iranian Cinema
Screening Dates
  • July 22, 2018 4:00
  • July 25, 2018 7:00

In Ferrari, veteran Iranian filmmaker Alireza Davoudnejad (The Need, Sweet Agony) returns to tell another compelling coming-of-age story, this time of a teenaged girl from the provinces who travels to Tehran in search of her favourite car. The name ​“Ferrari” is a pun on the Persian word for ​“runaway.” As expected from the director, Ferrari is a frank confrontation with the class struggles and generational differences in contemporary Iran. Mohsen Tanabandeh’s terrific performance won him the Best Actor prize at last year’s Fajr Film Festival; Kambuzia Partovi’s script was named Best Screenplay. Partovi also wrote Jafar Panahi’s 2000 film The Circle; he and Panahi co-directed 2013’s Closed Curtain. (Adapted from CineIran Festival, Toronto).