Special Features: Q&A with actor Madjid Niroumand on Feb. 11
In this "gem of the Iranian new wave" (J. Hoberman, The New York Times), Amiro (Madjid Niroumand) is an illiterate 11-year-old orphan living alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water and diving for deposit bottles, while being bullied by both adults and competing older kids. But he finds solace by dreaming about departing cargo ships and airplanes and by running... seemingly to nowhere. Gorgeously restored with improved subtitles, you can finally see this "work of astonishing power and simplicity" (Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times) as it was meant to be seen. (Note adapted from Rialto Pictures.) DIR/SCR Amir Naderi; PROD Ali Reza Zarrin. Iran, 1984, color, 91 min. In Persian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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