At the 64th Cannes Film Festival will show films of two Iranian political prisoners who were persecuted at home and a ban on the profession.
Jafar Panahi, Iranian filmmakers and Mohammad Rasulof were arrested March 1, 2010 on charges of antigovernment activity. In December of that year they were sentenced to six years in prison and a 20-year ban on the profession and out of Iran.
Directors have appealed the verdict and is currently under investigation. And this year they even managed to shoot and take in Europe their new picture.
"While we are alive, we will fight for the freedom of Iranian cinema. That is what led us in time to cross the border, imposed censorship "- Jafar Panahi wrote in a letter to the festival, dated May 5.
Jafar Panahi - winner of the Cannes Golden Camera, Venice Golden Lion, the Berlin Silver Bear.
"Dropping out on our share of difficulties - both our greatest success - Jafar Panahi wrote in a letter to the festival. - This seeming paradox has helped us not lose hope and continue their work. The world has so many problems, and it is our duty - not to surrender, but to seek solutions. "
As we have mentioned, movies Iranian filmmakers entered the program a special screening of the festival.
One of them is called "Goodbye" and will be shown in the "Certain Regard": it Mohammad Rasulof based on personal experience of relations with the Iranian bureaucracy, about a young lawyer, and Tehran's efforts to obtain a visa to leave the country.
"This is not the movie" Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmas tells how Jafar Panahi waited Court of Appeal. One day in the life of Jafar Panahi gives an idea about the general situation in the Iranian cinema. Coauthor movie Mojtaba Mirtahmasb - Iranian documentary filmmaker, a former assistant director Jafar Panahi.
The official website of the Cannes Film Festival reported that both the movie filmed in semi-underground conditions, a few days ago, filmmakers managed to smuggle them to the Cannes festival.
"These two films - the picture of Mohammad Rasulova, filmed in the toughest conditions, your blog or detached from the creative work of the artist - are in themselves an act of resistance to the sentence pronounced by the poster. Two directors who are in the same year suffered the same fate, at the same time shoot two films simultaneously and send them to the Cannes Film Festival. This vysokosimvolichny artistic act and a very courageous act. Cannes Film Festival - an international organization that protects and supports the filmmakers. I am convinced that all film professionals who will gather in Cannes, will stand in defense of their Iranian colleagues and brothers in craft "- said the organizers of the Festival Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux.
Jafar Panahi, Iranian filmmakers and Mohammad Rasulof were arrested March 1, 2010 on charges of antigovernment activity. In December of that year they were sentenced to six years in prison and a 20-year ban on the profession and out of Iran.
Directors have appealed the verdict and is currently under investigation. And this year they even managed to shoot and take in Europe their new picture.
"While we are alive, we will fight for the freedom of Iranian cinema. That is what led us in time to cross the border, imposed censorship "- Jafar Panahi wrote in a letter to the festival, dated May 5.
"Dropping out on our share of difficulties - both our greatest success - Jafar Panahi wrote in a letter to the festival. - This seeming paradox has helped us not lose hope and continue their work. The world has so many problems, and it is our duty - not to surrender, but to seek solutions. "
As we have mentioned, movies Iranian filmmakers entered the program a special screening of the festival.
One of them is called "Goodbye" and will be shown in the "Certain Regard": it Mohammad Rasulof based on personal experience of relations with the Iranian bureaucracy, about a young lawyer, and Tehran's efforts to obtain a visa to leave the country.
"This is not the movie" Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmas tells how Jafar Panahi waited Court of Appeal. One day in the life of Jafar Panahi gives an idea about the general situation in the Iranian cinema. Coauthor movie Mojtaba Mirtahmasb - Iranian documentary filmmaker, a former assistant director Jafar Panahi.
The official website of the Cannes Film Festival reported that both the movie filmed in semi-underground conditions, a few days ago, filmmakers managed to smuggle them to the Cannes festival.
"These two films - the picture of Mohammad Rasulova, filmed in the toughest conditions, your blog or detached from the creative work of the artist - are in themselves an act of resistance to the sentence pronounced by the poster. Two directors who are in the same year suffered the same fate, at the same time shoot two films simultaneously and send them to the Cannes Film Festival. This vysokosimvolichny artistic act and a very courageous act. Cannes Film Festival - an international organization that protects and supports the filmmakers. I am convinced that all film professionals who will gather in Cannes, will stand in defense of their Iranian colleagues and brothers in craft "- said the organizers of the Festival Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux.
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