Image Arts professor Alireza Khatami wins Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival
Image Arts professor Alireza Khatami made his Sundance Film Festival debut with the world premiere of his film The Things You Kill, winning the Directing Award for World Cinema Dramatic (external link, opens in new window) . Khatami wrote and directed the film, which Sundance programmer Ana Souza praised as “ambitious and unsettling, The Things You Kill (external link, opens in new window) shatters expectations to deliver a timely and original vision of the cost of personal and collective liberation.” A quietly insidious psychological thriller, the film follows a gradual descent into the oppressive depths of generational patriarchy. The Things You Kill is Khatami’s third feature film and an impressive international co-production between Turkey, France, Poland, and Canada. Check out this video (external link, opens in new window) to learn more about the film.
Image Arts professor Alireza Khatami receiving the Directing Award for World Cinema Dramatic.
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