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Short Summer and Inside Amir
Inside Amir (Country: Iran; Year: 2025; Director: Amir Azizi; Writer: Amir Azizi; Stars: Amirhossein Hosseini, Nader Pourmahin, Hadis Nazari, Nariman Farrokhi, Pirouz Nemati, Sohrab Mahdavi)
Drama revolving around the life of a young man on the verge of emigrating from Tehran to southern Italy.
Short Summer (Country: Germany, France, Serbia; Year: 2025; Director: Nastia Korkia; Writer: Nastia Korkia, Mikhail Bushkov; Stars: Maiia Pleshkevich, Yakov Karykhalin, Aleksandr Karpushin)
An eight-year-old spends summer with her grandparents as the distant echoes of war make their presence felt.
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