To leave or not to leave. That’s the question. Writer and director Amir Azizi (Two Dogs, Temporary) follows a young man in Tehran, Iran on the verge of emigrating in his latest feature, Inside Amir.

Amir Locke was laid to rest on Thursday after the 22-year-old was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer carrying out a no-knock warrant — that Locke wasn’t named in — earlier this month.

Writer and director Amir Azizi’s new film, led by Amirhossein Hosseini, world premieres in Venice’s Giornate Degli Autori, or Venice Days. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor “Amid scattered ...