Tatami: Zar Amir and Guy Nattiv co-direct this tale, inspired by a few similar real-life occurrences. It tells the story of an Iranian judoka who is pressured to abandon her dream of a World Championship because she may cross paths with an Israeli competitor. It’s a good reminder of one of the many aspects of the repression perpetrated by the Iranian regime, but it’s a bland film, generally unexciting. The performances are merely OK: Arienne Mandi shows some intensity but little range as the judoka, while co-director Zar Amir plays her coach. Visually, the film fails to use the plasticity of judo to its advantage, with cinematographer Todd Martin and editor Yuval Orr going instead for hyper-close, hyper-kinetic, disorienting imagery. The high-contrast black-and-white, however, is both beautiful and a clever, artistic way to keep production costs down.