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TATAMI
TATAMI

• Director: Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir
• GEORGIA, USA / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 105’ / English, Persian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Guy Nattiv, Elham Erfani
• Director of Photography: Todd Martin
• Editing: Yuval Orr
• Music: Dascha Dauenhauer
• Cast: Arienne Mandi, Zar Amir, Jaime Ray Newman, Ash Goldeh
• Producer: Adi Ezroni, Mandy Tagger Brockey, Guy Nattiv, Jaime Ray Newman
• Production Co.: Keshet Studios, New Native Pictures
• World Sales: Westend Films

2023 Tokyo Special Jury Prize, Best Actress

Co-directed by Zar Amir, Cannes Best Actress winner for Holy Spider (2022), and Guy Nattiv, the director of Skin, Tatami depicts a judoka and her coach who are forced by the Iranian authorities to withdraw from a match. Set during one very tense day at the world championship in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tatami is simultaneously a sports thriller following an athlete pursuing gold for the first time, and a political thriller about oppression and two enemy countries. Zar Amir herself plays the coach in this engrossing, female-centric, riveting, black and white film where the excitement, tension, action, and pressure gradually heighten. The first feature film to be co-directed by an Iranian and an Israeli filmmaker, and shot secretly in Georgia, Tatami had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.