How a imprisonment helped an Iranian director at Cannes Win

(Bloomberg) – “I went to rest,” Jafar Panahi said about the months he spent in Iranian prison. It was the first time the director at the Cannes Film Festival after the authorities in his homeland banned him from making films and traveling internationally for more than 14 years. A few days before his film, it was just an accident that the Palme d’Or won, and he was strikingly things, while he would consider the experiences most traumatic, including two stints in Evin Prison in Tehran, one of the world’s most notorious detention facilities for dissidents. In 2010, Panahi was convicted of “propaganda against the state” and sentenced to six years in prison. He was released on bail after two months after having a hunger strike to protest his detention. He continued to work secrets. Most of the guerrilla films that followed were meta-fiks that interpreted himself that commented on his situation obliquely: He did not shoot it with an iPhone (2011) while under house arrest. In Taxi (2015), which takes place entirely in a car, he plays an outdoor-work filmmaker Moonlighting as a taxi driver. In 2022, his original sentence was reactivated when he protested the arrest of fellow filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof. After seven months, he started a new hunger strike and got a conditional release again before his travel ban and sentence were finally lifted. “After the woman, life, freedom movement, because the prisons swollen with all these new prisoners, the government granted [me] Amnesty, “he said, referring to the protests that Iran shook for months in September 2022, fueled by the death of Mahsa Amini in the hands of morality police. Although Panahi said he was a victim of injustice, he left his time as beneficial.” Close to people I have never met before. ” suspicion. Executors. After half a decade, one could reasonably retreat to the director to a safer way of filmmaking. Protect himself and the other people.) In the context of the post-revolutionary Iranian film, such directly rare, especially of directors who want to stay in the country. Including the brutality of police. All I know is that I go back. Then we will see what happens. “He was met by a cheering crowd of supporters at Tehran airport, and has since traveled to many countries around the world to fit the film for the first time. Moment, but the government is in no position to return to the previous status quo because people are resisting,” he said. ” The government places new punishments every day and yet people keep their own thing.