Jerry & Me - trailer

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Channel: International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR · 2013 · Film & Animation

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She is film professor and director and lives in the States. But she grew up in Teheran, where she fell in love with the American film comedian Jerry Lewis. An ode.

At one time, you could see a different American film in Tehran every night. Mehrnaz Saeedvafa, who grew up there, went with her father to the cinema and became a great fan of crazy American comic Jerry Lewis.
She left Iran at an early age, becoming a filmmaker and Professor of Film & Video at Columbia College in Chicago. In this ingenious film, she looks back on her childhood through images of her beloved Jerry.

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