Alireza Hatamvand is an Iranian medical doctor, film critic and aspiring filmmaker, currently lost somewhere between medicine and cinema. He has written for Iranian and Australian film platforms. Some days he sees patients, some days he writes about films, and most days he is quietly chasing the dream of directing his own. He is in love with film history, changes his favourite director every now and then, and, if you ask him today, will probably say Wong Kar-wai.
Before In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh announced himself as a filmmaker with Six Shooter, a darkly comic, Oscar-winning short that distilled the themes, violence and absurdity that would come to define his career. Alireza Hatamvand takes aim.