A couple of days back Frémaux & co. completed the Main Competition by migrating Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist out of its Out of Competition slot and into the Competition spotlight, as well as announcing Zvyagintsev's Elena as the closing night film for Un Certain Regard. We'd thought that the Official Selection was just about set in stone; however, just now Cannes has added two more - one film each to Un Certain Regard and Out of Competition sections - by "imprisoned" (thankfully symbolically speaking) Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi. The oppressed nature in which these films were made can be detected right from their titles: Panahi's film is titled This is Not a Film (In Film Nist), while Rasoulof's has the cryptic title Goodbye (Be Omid-e Didar), though I'm told this could also translate to the more hopeful "See You Soon." Panahi's presence had already been slotted in at the Directors' Fortnight,...
- 5/7/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Jafar Panahi, of "The White Balloon," "Crimson Gold" and "Offside," is one of major Iranian filmmakers -- though his films are banned in Iran, and his support of the Iranian Green Movement has made him a persecuted figure in his own country. Last year he was arrested and temporarily jailed for his participation in a post-election rally in Tehran, his passport revoked. He was imprisoned again in March and not released on bail until late May, his chair on the Cannes jury left empty for him in his absence.
Today he was "convicted of gathering, colluding and propaganda against the regime," according to the Guardian. His lawyer reports that he "is therefore sentenced to six years in prison and also he is banned for 20 years from making any films, writing any scripts, travelling abroad and also giving any interviews to the media including foreign and domestic news organisations." It's absolutely...
Today he was "convicted of gathering, colluding and propaganda against the regime," according to the Guardian. His lawyer reports that he "is therefore sentenced to six years in prison and also he is banned for 20 years from making any films, writing any scripts, travelling abroad and also giving any interviews to the media including foreign and domestic news organisations." It's absolutely...
- 12/20/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
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