The Venice Movie Competition launched a political message towards censorship and authority in Iran, awarding a distinctive jury prize of its 79th session to Iranian director Jaafar Panahi on Saturday, underlining the drive not to depart the director imprisoned because July at the his future.
The director, forcibly absent from the occasion, received a long applause from the Venice general public right after announcing his award.
Panahi, a person of the most notable names in Iranian cinema, presents in the film “Bears do not exist”, which he could not current in the “Mustra” thanks to his presence in prison, the story of a creator detained in his nation, on the net with its fact, to far better denounce the repression.
His most noteworthy achievements
Panahi, 62, who began his job as Abbas Kiarostami’s assistant, won the Golden Lion in Venice in 2000 for his film “The Circle”, and the Screenplay Award at the Cannes Movie Pageant in 2018 for movie “3 Faces”, 3 many years after obtaining the Al-Dhahabi Bear Award in Berlin for his movie “Tehran Taxi”.
Mina Kawani, a person of the film’s actresses, browse a concept on the stage of the Palazzo Cinema in Venice: “We are all in this article thanks to the energy of cinema, and for the sake of Jafar Panahi”.
Information at the competition
The director, who was jailed right after remaining convicted of “anti-regime propaganda”, sent a letter to the Italian competition last 7 days, which he signed with his jailed colleague, Mohammad Rasoul Af, accusing Tehran of working with unbiased directors as if they ended up “criminals”.
In their letter, the two directors stressed that “the heritage of Iranian cinema testifies to the long term and active existence of impartial administrators who fought against censorship and for the continuity of this art. Among them, some testify that the movies were being bandits and other people ended up pressured into exile or positioned in solitary confinement “.
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