Leila Hatami in the Critics’ Week section

According to Aria Heritage and quoted by ISNA, the list of films for the 61st season of the Critics’ Week side section for the first and second films of directors has been announced, and the movie “Herman” made by Ali Behrad and starring Leila Hatami and Mehrdad Sedighiyan is one of the 7 feature films. The competition section is this section.

“Herman” road movie with English name (Imagine) is Ali Mehrad’s first feature film and a road film shot in Tehran and is the first experience of Iranian cinema in the side of Critics’ Week in the last 20 years.

The list of feature films in the Critics’ Week section is as follows:

Special shows

“When you have finished saving the world” (opening video)
Director: Jesse Eisenberg

“Sons of Ramses”
Director: Clement Cogitore

: “Everyone loves Jane”
Director: Celine Doo

The next person Su Hee (Closing film)
Director: July Jung

Competition videos

“After the Sun”
Director: Charlotte Wells

Alma Viva
Director: Crystal Alves Mira

Dalwa
Director: Emmanuel Nicot

“Closed”
Director: Andres Ramirez Polido

“Summer Wounds”
Director: Simon Reith

Herman
Director: Ali Behrad

“The story of the woodcutter”
Director: Miko Milalati

The Critics’ Week section has been held since 1962 and is dominated by the French Film Critics Syndicate, and is dedicated to the first and second films of directors from all over the world. This year, “Kowsar Behnia”, a Tunisian filmmaker, has been selected as the head of the jury for the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week.