Arian Vazirdaftari Delivers Iranian Cinema With Western Influence in ‘Without Her’ – Venice
variety.comAnna Tatarska Arian Vazirdaftari, whose debut feature “Without Her” (“Bi roya”) was picked up by Berlin-based sales company Picture Tree Intl.
and is screening as part of Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra section, is no stranger to international festivals. He was a part of Berlinale Talent Campus and his short films screened in Busan, Brussels and Cannes among many others. “I started as a self-taught filmmaker and only landed in film school many years later,” Vazirdaftari says. “My international experiences really helped.
I got to know a more professional atmosphere globally, learned about what’s going on in film festivals, how films are selected and distributed. “There are so many films and filmmakers around the world, so I knew that if I wanted to succeed internationally, I had to have something really special to make a movie about.
These experiences made me tougher.” In “Without Her,” the main protagonist Roya is about to emigrate when she stumbles upon a young, distressed woman, who seems to suffer from memory loss.
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