As I was Leaving My City | 3:30 | 2007 | Iran
Director: Amirali Navaee
How does challenging political climate impact creativity? Navaee explores the pull between personal freedoms and cultural limitation. Is the lower half of a dancing man leaving his beloved city an objectification or personalization of the compromises made? He travels in the opposite direction of a sign indicating that ‘heaven’ is in the other way: follow his path as he dances out his answer.
