Zero Compromise: The Films of Zar Amir

A writer, director, casting director, producer, and actor—in which capacity she was awarded top honors for her performance in Ali Abbasi’s controversial thriller Holy Spider at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival—Tehran-born, Paris-based Amir helmed her first short, Khat, when she was only 18, and has since established herself as a force to be reckoned with in international cinema, surviving government censure and other attempts to silence this outspoken, ambitious woman. A tribute to an indomitable and exacting artist, who will be visiting Metrograph in person to present a program that includes her directorial work, Tatami, as well as Two People Exchanging Saliva, Holy Spider, Shayda, and Mehran Tamadon’s documentary My Worst Enemy, in which she is one of the exiled Iranians invited to interrogate the director as though he were an agent of the Islamic Republic.

With the support of Villa Albertine