Amir Naderi (The Runner; Water, Wind and Dust) has been called, in Sight and Sound, "the most imaginative of contemporary Iranian filmmakers-a miniaturist with an almost Chekovian grasp of mood and atmosphere." Waiting is an exquisitely photographed short feature, using no dialogue but only ambient sounds and overheard bits of conversation. An adolescent boy goes each day to a house in the old part of town and receives a bowl of ice from the beautifully hennaed hands of a girl whose face he cannot see. His passionate curiosity sparked, the boy follows living phantoms all over town-down every alley a figure seems to elude him. This is the Meshes of the Afternoon of Iranian cinema, but in color-or rather, a kind of color chiaroscuro that uses the reds and oranges of sunset and dawn to create the most glistening natural light imaginable.