The Runner (1984 film)

The Runner (Persian: ...دونده, Davandeh...) is a 1984 Iranian film by Amir Naderi.

The Runner was one of the first post-revolutionary Iranian films screened and celebrated internationally. Inspired by director Amir Naderi’s own boyhood, it sets the tone for many of the films that followed: realism, children's perspective of the world, innocence, gentleness, set in poor neighbourhoods, exposing great disparities in wealth, resting much of the film on the shoulders of one young actor, using children's lives as analogies for, or explicit expositions of, the problems of the adult world. The film is critically acclaimed for presenting an authentic image of the encounter with modernity in Iranian cinema.