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Iranian authorities have arrested two well-known local actresses after they showed support for the country’s protest movement and appeared in public without their hijabs, or headscarves.
Hengameh Ghaziani, who has appeared in features such as Parviz Sheikh Tadi’s Days of Life (2012) and Reza Mirkarimi’s As Simple as That (2008), and Katayoun Riahi, a best actress winner at the 2002 Cairo Film Festival for Fereydoun Jeyrani’s The Last Supper, were detained after putting up “provocative” social media posts, Iran’s state-run Irna news agency reported.
The latest arrests come amid nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by the country’s morality police for allegedly failing to correctly wear her hijab. Authorities have violently suppressed the protests, which they claim have been stirred up by western governments hostile to Tehran.
Ghaziani...
Iranian authorities have arrested two well-known local actresses after they showed support for the country’s protest movement and appeared in public without their hijabs, or headscarves.
Hengameh Ghaziani, who has appeared in features such as Parviz Sheikh Tadi’s Days of Life (2012) and Reza Mirkarimi’s As Simple as That (2008), and Katayoun Riahi, a best actress winner at the 2002 Cairo Film Festival for Fereydoun Jeyrani’s The Last Supper, were detained after putting up “provocative” social media posts, Iran’s state-run Irna news agency reported.
The latest arrests come amid nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by the country’s morality police for allegedly failing to correctly wear her hijab. Authorities have violently suppressed the protests, which they claim have been stirred up by western governments hostile to Tehran.
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- 11/21/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Prominent Iranian producer Gholamreza Moosavi, whose latest film is Berlin standout “Ballad of a White Cow,” has been hospitalized in Tehran due to Covid-19, London-based Iran International TV has reported.
Moosavi, 69, who is president of Iran’s film producers’ union and also heads Film Iran, which is the country’s largest domestic distributor, is in an intensive care unit of Tehran’s private Nikan Hospital due to coronavirus, Iran International said in a statement.
Last month French distributor Totem Films sold “Ballad of a White Cow” – the Berlin competition title co-directed by Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam about a woman’s struggle for justice, recognition and independence in today’s Tehran – to a slew of European territories. The pic was produced by Moosavi and French producer Etienne de Ricaud.
Moosavi’s other producer credits comprise social dramas “Hatred,” directed by Reza Dormishain, which went to several international festivals; “Last Theft...
Moosavi, 69, who is president of Iran’s film producers’ union and also heads Film Iran, which is the country’s largest domestic distributor, is in an intensive care unit of Tehran’s private Nikan Hospital due to coronavirus, Iran International said in a statement.
Last month French distributor Totem Films sold “Ballad of a White Cow” – the Berlin competition title co-directed by Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam about a woman’s struggle for justice, recognition and independence in today’s Tehran – to a slew of European territories. The pic was produced by Moosavi and French producer Etienne de Ricaud.
Moosavi’s other producer credits comprise social dramas “Hatred,” directed by Reza Dormishain, which went to several international festivals; “Last Theft...
- 4/7/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
A visually exquisite monochrome thriller from veteran Iranian writer-director Fereydoun Jeyrani, Asphyxia interweaves classic film noir tropes and slow-burn Hitchcockian suspense into a timely fable about a patriarchal society so rotten that it literally drives women to murder. Fresh from its international premiere at Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn last week, Jeyrani’s chilly mood piece has all the stylistic signifiers of an art house niche item, but its luminous beauty and genre-friendly plot may boost its prospects beyond the festival bubble.
In an unnamed city plunged into endless darkness by icy blizzards and electrical power cuts, Sahra (Elnaz Shakerdoust) lives...
In an unnamed city plunged into endless darkness by icy blizzards and electrical power cuts, Sahra (Elnaz Shakerdoust) lives...
- 12/2/2017
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Every year, Iran turns out dozens of bland romantic dramas – but why?
It may come as no surprise that what international audiences refer to as "Iranian cinema" covers only a small, selective portion of the films produced in Iran. For all the innovative, artistic films that garner attention at festivals, there are many more that never cross the borders. Some of these are accomplished art films in their own right, but the rest, a majority, do not have any artistic pretensions.
They are made to survive only a few weeks at the local theatres and DVD stands. It's no shame if they are forgotten, but they can't be ignored completely. The film industry in Iran, currently one of the most active in the world, produces nearly 100 features every year – and that's not counting documentaries, underground films, and a deluge of made-for-tv features. To put this in perspective: France, the most successful film industry in Europe,...
It may come as no surprise that what international audiences refer to as "Iranian cinema" covers only a small, selective portion of the films produced in Iran. For all the innovative, artistic films that garner attention at festivals, there are many more that never cross the borders. Some of these are accomplished art films in their own right, but the rest, a majority, do not have any artistic pretensions.
They are made to survive only a few weeks at the local theatres and DVD stands. It's no shame if they are forgotten, but they can't be ignored completely. The film industry in Iran, currently one of the most active in the world, produces nearly 100 features every year – and that's not counting documentaries, underground films, and a deluge of made-for-tv features. To put this in perspective: France, the most successful film industry in Europe,...
- 2/8/2013
- by Houman Harouni
- The Guardian - Film News
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