Alireza Khatami wins Best Directing Award in World Cinema at Sundance Film Festival

We are thrilled to announce that Alireza Khatami’s newest film, The Things You Kill, has won the Best Directing Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival! This marks the third feature film by our esteemed IMA Film professor and an impressive international co-production between Turkey, France, Poland, and Canada.

With this new film, Alireza delves into the malaise of masculinity and the legacy of paternal violence. The story follows Ali, a university professor, who is haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother. He coerces his enigmatic gardener into executing a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long-buried family secrets resurface and the police close in, Ali’s doubts begin to erode his conscience, forcing him to confront the abyss of his own soul.

Alireza is currently an Associate Professor in Film at The School of Image Arts.