Metrograph

Tamadon, who experienced hours of interrogation at the hands of Iranian authorities in 2012 before having his passport confiscated and taking up permanent resident in Paris, teams with a group of fellow exiles, including Amir, with the intention of producing a study in the methodology of control, his collaborators playing the parts of intelligence agents and recreating the sort of grueling cross-examinations they’d all at various points endured. What Tamadon initially proposes as a sort of empathy-building exercise, however, is turned on its head when Amir comes up to the plate, providing the film its most powerful moment by redirecting Tamadon to self-critique, per The Guardian’s critic, “Her probing questions, delivered in character… expos[ing] the various ethical issues surrounding Tamadon’s practice.”

Q&A with Zar Amir moderated by film producer Lesli Klainberg on Sunday, September 28th