Wayward Iranian film-makers are subject to travel bans, interrogations and threats. “Start choosing your cemetery,” reads one sent to a director who fled abroad
, censors still ban all foreign films and local ones deemed counter-revolutionary. Directors need permits to shoot and release their films. Commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps heading big foundations provide funding. The easiest way to get it is to portray battlefield heroics during the Iran-Iraq war or, like a recent one, the use of Western weapons in gassing the Kurds.film-makers are subject to travel bans, interrogations and threats.
His female characters are doomed. A rumour ends in an honour crime and in the film-in-a-film, the woman escaping through Turkey drowns. “Little by little he [Mr Panahi] became ever more pessimistic about the future of Iranian society,” says Bahman Ghobadi, a fellow director. “It’s a generation that’s lost its hope.”
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