Inside Amir

Iranian director Amir Aziz will be present for an in-depth conversation with Norwegian director and writer Dag Johan Haugerud, who served as jury president for Venice Days and awarded the main prize to Inside Amir.

Inside Amir follows a young man in Tehran on the verge of emigrating. Amid scattered memories, unfinished conversations, and slow-moving days, he faces a decision he hasn’t fully made yet: to leave or to stay.

The only thing he refuses to part with is his bicycle – a companion through the city’s streets and a symbol of his past. As his departure to join Tara, his girlfriend now in Italy, grows closer, we learn how years ago, their relationship kept him from joining a family trip that ended in tragedy. Tara became more than a partner – she came to represent the life he was spared.

Dag Johan Haugerud, writer-director of the trilogy Sex, Drømmer, Kjærlighet and Venice Days Jury President, will be at the Inside Amir screening.

Jury Statement:

Inside Amir is a meditation on everyday life. It reminds us of how daily routines, movements, and conversations with friends provide both security and freedom. With a framing that little by little reveals a complex life marked by loss and grief against a backdrop of exile and social upheaval, the film asks fundamental questions about what it means to belong and the existential doubts that follow in the wake of such thoughts.