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TATAMI

Arienne Mandi and Zar Amir

A FILM BY
GUY NATTIV (Academy Award Winner)
AND
ZAR AMIR (Cannes Award Winner)

Inspired by Real Life Events

June 13 - NYC

June 20 - LA

June 27 - Nationwide

“SET TO MAKE HISTORY”
Variety

“A RIVETING TALE OF FREEDOM VERSUS OPPRESSION”
The Hollywood Reporter

“A POWERFUL, EMPOWERING AND INCREDIBLY POIGNANT STORY”
Loud and Clear

About Zar Amir

Zar Amir (also known as Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) is an Iranian-French actress, producer, and director. She rose to international prominence for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in the crime thriller Holy Spider (2022), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Robert Award for Best Actress, among other honors. In 2023, she starred in Shayda, which won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Amir also stars in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2025), which won both the Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize at the Rome International Film Festival. Her latest feature, Tatami, which she both stars in and co-directed alongside Guy Nattiv, premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, where it received the Brian Award. The film also received a Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Film Festival, where Amir also earned the Best Actress award.
 
Amir founded her production company, Alambic Productions, in 2019. Their latest project, LILI, a video game made in collaboration with iNK Stories and the Royal Shakespeare Company, will premiere in competition as part of the 2025 Festival de Cannes Immersive lineup. The video game is a neo-noir reimagining of Lady Macbeth's story set in contemporary Iran, with Amir playing the titular Lili.

Photo by Theo & Juliet

About Guy Nattiv

GUY NATTIV is best known for directing, co-writing and producing SKIN, where he won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Guy went on to write and direct the feature version, also titled SKIN, which starred Jamie Bell and won the Fipresci Critics Prize at the Toronto Film Festival in 2019. The film was acquired by A24. 
 
Most recently he co-directed and co-wrote TATAMI, a historic collaboration between Israeli and Iranian filmmakers, which had its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 to significant acclaim. The film won two prizes at the Tokyo Film Festival, Best Film at the Munich Festival, and two prizes at Camerimage in Poland.
 
Guy is set next to direct HARMONIA, based on the true story of his grandmother’s involvement with an all-women’s cult. It stars Carrie Coon, Bella Ramsey and Lily James, and will be shot summer 2025.
 
Guy lives in Los Angeles where he runs New Native Pictures with his wife and partner, Jaime Ray Newman. 

Photo by Kris Dewitte