Fandango Film Sales has acquired all rights to Italian-based Iranian director Milad Tangshir’s feature debut “Anywhere Anytime” ahead of its Venice Critics’ Week and Centrepiece section at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Inspired by Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves, albeit in a contemporary setting, the film tells the story of Issa, a young undocumented Senegalese immigrant living in Turin who, after being fired by his employer for fear of being fined by the police, starts working as a food delivery driver, a job that gives him a sense of security and freedom until his bike is stolen. “Issa then embarks on a desperate journey through the city streets to find his bike,” according to the synopsis.
Tangshir, who was born in 1983 in Tehran, has released three albums with the Iranian rock band
Ahora, before moving to Italy in 2011. Since then, he has produced and directed several short films and documentaries, including the virtual reality documentary “VR Free” which screened at the Venice Film Festival and Sundance.
“Anywhere, Anytime” “explores the sense of fear and constant anxiety of those who, like the film’s protagonist, live on the margins, in the cracks of society: an invisible life, one of many lives we intersect with every day on the sidewalk or street corner,” Tangshir said in his director’s statement.
“This is a very vulnerable situation, where even a simple bike can make the difference between survival and non-survival,” he added.
“Anywhere Anytime” is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa’s Vivo Film and Roberto De Paolis and Carla Altieri’s Young Films with RAI Cinema.
