IRAN
WAITING
46 MIN
1974
A fourteen year old boy lives with his aunt and her old husband in a provincial town in southern Iran. Everyday he fetches for them some ice carried in a bowl from a neighbor’s house. He never sees the face of the girl who gives him ice through the door with her hennaed hands. Taking a glimpse of the face of the hand’s owner becomes his greatest wish in life.
Cast & Crew
Director: Amir Naderi
Script: Amir Naderi
Director of Photography: Firouz Malekzadeh
Production Design: Amir Naderi
Sound: Ahmad Asgari, Mohammad Haghighi
Editing: Kamran Shirdel
Cast: Hassan Heydari, Zohreh Ghahremani, Farzaneh Youssefi, Soheila Ahmadi
Production. Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young adults - Kanoon
Cast & Crew
Director: Amir Naderi
Script: Amir Naderi
Director of Photography: Firouz Malekzadeh
Production Design: Amir Naderi
Sound: Ahmad Asgari, Mohammad Haghighi
Editing: Kamran Shirdel
Cast: Hassan Heydari, Zohreh Ghahremani, Farzaneh Youssefi, Soheila Ahmadi
Production. Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young adults - Kanoon
Amir Naderi
Born in 1946, Abadan, Iran. In 1971, his directorial debut, Goodbye, Friend, was released in Iran. Amir Naderi first came into the international spotlight with films that are now known as cinema classics, The Runner (1985), and Water, Wind, Dust (1989). The Runner is considered by many critics to be one of the most influential films of the past quarter century. After expatriating to New York in the early 1990’s, Amir Naderi continued to produce new works. He was named a Rockefeller Film and Video Fellow in 1997 and has served as instructor at Columbia University, University of Las Vegas, and New York's School of Visual Arts. His US films have premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center/ MoMA's New Directors/New Films series, the Venice, Cannes, Tribeca, and Sundance FF.
Filmography
Goodbye, Friend (1971), Tight Spot (1973), Strait (1973), Waiting (1974), Harmonica (1974), Requiem (1978), Made in Iran (1978), The Search (doc., 1980), Second Search (1981), The Runner (1984), The Winner (short, 1984), Water, Wind, Dust (1989), Manhattan By Numbers (1993), A, B, C... Manhattan (1997), Marathon (2002), Sound Barrier (2005), Vegas: Based օn ա True Story (2008), Cut (2011), 60 Seconds of Solitude In Year Zero (segment, 2011), Venice 70: Future Reloaded (segment, 2013), Mise en Scene with Arthur Penn (doc., 2014), Mountain (2016), Magic Lantern (2018)․
Born in 1946, Abadan, Iran. In 1971, his directorial debut, Goodbye, Friend, was released in Iran. Amir Naderi first came into the international spotlight with films that are now known as cinema classics, The Runner (1985), and Water, Wind, Dust (1989). The Runner is considered by many critics to be one of the most influential films of the past quarter century. After expatriating to New York in the early 1990’s, Amir Naderi continued to produce new works. He was named a Rockefeller Film and Video Fellow in 1997 and has served as instructor at Columbia University, University of Las Vegas, and New York's School of Visual Arts. His US films have premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center/ MoMA's New Directors/New Films series, the Venice, Cannes, Tribeca, and Sundance FF.
Filmography
Goodbye, Friend (1971), Tight Spot (1973), Strait (1973), Waiting (1974), Harmonica (1974), Requiem (1978), Made in Iran (1978), The Search (doc., 1980), Second Search (1981), The Runner (1984), The Winner (short, 1984), Water, Wind, Dust (1989), Manhattan By Numbers (1993), A, B, C... Manhattan (1997), Marathon (2002), Sound Barrier (2005), Vegas: Based օn ա True Story (2008), Cut (2011), 60 Seconds of Solitude In Year Zero (segment, 2011), Venice 70: Future Reloaded (segment, 2013), Mise en Scene with Arthur Penn (doc., 2014), Mountain (2016), Magic Lantern (2018)․
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