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Director: Abbas Amini
Screenplay: Abbas Amini – Hossein Farokhzadeh
Director of Photography: Ashkan Ashkani
Editor: Hamidreza Barzegar – Majid Barzegar
Set Designer: Leila Naghdi Pari
Costume designer: Leila Naghdi Pari
Sound: Reza Tehrani – Hossein Pour-Rahimi
Sound Design & Mix: Arash Ghasemi
Production Manager: Mehdi Barzegar– Masoud Mahbod
Music: Mehran Ghaedipour
Production Company: Barzegar Production
Producer: Majid Barzegar
Cast: Hamed Alipour (Atigh) – Nafiseh Zare (Forough) – Gity Ghasemi (Moloud)
Assadolah Monjazi (Taher)

Color, 2K, 16:9, 91 min, 2016, Iran

15-year-old “Valderama”, so called by the townsfolk for his long curly hair, is trying to obtain the ID card he’s never been able to have.
After successfully defending himself from unwanted aggression and fearing the consequences he escapes to Tehran. In the vastness of the big-city he fights to obtain not only love and shelter, but also the personal recognition an ID card brings.

Abbas Amini

Abbas Amini was born in 1983 in Abadan, Iran and started making short films at the age of 13. In 2001 he moved to Tehran and was involved in several feature films as a director’s assistant. He then began making documentary films and became especially orientated towards social and child welfare issues. He has since directed a number of shorts and documentaries on social issues and the terrible consequences of the Iran/Iraq war. His keen interest in child welfare led him to work as a volunteer for  the ‘Association for the Protection of Child Labourers’ (APCL) over the past10 years. APCL, established in 2002 as the first NGO to focus on the issue of child labour, educates underprivileged children and improves their skills and living conditions by working on their critical problems.
“Valderama” is Amini’s first feature fiction film as a director.

*- 66th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlinale-Generation 14plus, Germany. February 11-21, 2016.
*- 3rd Köln Iranian Film Festival, Germany. May 26-29, 2016.
*- Cinema Iran, Drittes Iranisches Filmfestival München, Germany. July 6-11, 2016.
*- 17th Asiatica FILM MEDIALE, Roma Italia. September 17-October 2, 2016.
*- 5th Persian Film Festival, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaïde, Canberra, Australia. September 22-October 3, 2016.

 Design by majid barzegar

Photo by saeedeh shariati