Author: Hamed Sarrafi

Hamed Sarrafi is a London-based freelance film critic and journalist a. He used to be a member ‎of the International Federation of Journalists and over a span of 16 years, have ‎been covering many acclaimed global film festivals such as ‎London ‎Film Festival, along with interviewing prominent filmmakers such as ‎Mike Leigh, Walter Murch, László Nemes, Ken Loach, Ben Sharrock, and Cristi Puiu, through self-produced weekly podcasts ‎and feature articles (https://www.mixcloud.com/hsarrafi/‎). ‎His ‎articles has appeared ‎in numerous acclaimed Iranian magazines and newspapers ‎for the past 19 years. He is also the writer of ‎a film blog in Farsi, ‎https://hsarrafi.com.

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AZOR, Whatever My Grandpa Didn’t Write

For Andreas Fontana’s full-length feature debut as a director, Azor, he’s chosen to plunge straight into a time of dirty politics and the dictatorship in 1980 Argentina, where wealth insulates the elite. Talking in-depth with Hamed Sarrafi, the Argentine writer-director says he loves collaborating with friends like co-writer Mariano Llinas and using a mix of seasoned and non-professional actors – and he was pragmatic enough to get Swiss funding and place a Geneva banker at the center of the plot – but he also admits he’s something of a control freak. He deliberately interviewed some of the worst people imaginable…

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