(2025, Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Türkiye, 98')
Bahram is an Iranian-Azeri filmmaker marked by years of censorship and frustration: his films, shot in the northwest of the country, have never been granted permission to be screened. After yet another rejection, he decides to hop on a Vespa with his producer Sadaf and bring his work directly to the audience. Their journey unfolds through absurd bureaucracy, clandestine deals, and a reality that grows increasingly surreal, culminating in an unexpected finale. With Divine Comedy, Ali Asgari returns to Venice to portray, with irony and elegance, the contradictions of contemporary Iran, offering a powerful indictment of a system paralyzed by draconian rules.
An Iranian director and screenwriter (Tehran, 1982). After graduating in Iran, he moved to Rome to study at DAMS. He made his international debut with the short films Tonight Is Not a Good Night for Dying (2011), Barbie (2012), and The Baby (2014), presented at major festivals including Cannes, Venice, and Berlin. In 2017 he returned to the Lido with his first feature Disappearance, followed by Until Tomorrow (Ta farda, 2022) and Kafka in Tehran, which screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2023.