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‘Tatami’, Sports Drama With Israeli And Iranian Co-Directors, Opens In New York As Conflict Escalates Between Two Countries — Specialty Box Office
As missiles fly between Israel and Iran, Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi are out with sports drama 'Tatami', co-directed in a landmark collaboration.
Skin) and Cannes Best Actress winner (for Holy Spider) Zar Amir Ebramini, who also stars, follows Leila (Adrienne Mandi), an Iranian judo athlete in political peril when her government tells her to fake an injury and withdraw from the world championships rather than face an Israeli rival in the final. Inspired by the real life stories of female Iranian athletes now in exile like taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh, boxer Sadaf Khadem and skier Atefeh Ahmadi, Tatami was filmed in 2022 in the Georgian capital Tbilisi “when the world was a little more sane,” said Nattiv in a June 13 interview with the Times of Israel. Other notable indies this weekend include Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starring Benecio del Toro, still going strong in week 3 with $3 million on 1,731 screens and a no.
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