Directed and edited by Bahman Kiarostami
Iran, 87 minutes, 2023
In Farsi and English with English subtitles
Sound design: Mahour Mirshakkak
Colour grading: Mahshid Afzali
Graphics: Ashkan Forootan

Fereydoun Ave (b.1945): Over the past five decades, artist, curator, designer and collector Fereydoun Ave has assembled a singular collection of modern and contemporary Iranian art inflected by personal history, friendship, sensibility and circumstance. His artworks have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and group shows in galleries and museums around the world. He is in the collections of the British Museum, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Centre Georges Pompidou,Paris, Cy Twombly Foundation, New York, and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. A linchpin figure, Ave returned to Iran in 1970 after years of education abroad, organizing groundbreaking exhibitions at the Iran-America Society’s Tehran cultural centre and the Zand Gallery, while also serving as resident designer at the avant-garde Theatre Workshop (Kargah-e Namayesh). He remained in Iran after the fateful Iranian Revolution of 1979, where he went on to launch 13 Vanak, an irreverent independent arts space in the disused garden shed of an iconic Tehran square. 13 Vanak ran for over two decades, incubating and launching the careers of countless artists.