Updated with Jafar Panahi’s US Arrival, Events: Iranian Director Jafar Panahi, Who Missed A Series of Events AFTER HIS VISA WAS DELAYED BY THE US Government Shutdown, Landed Tuesday with a First Stop at a Beyond Fest Screening and Q & A for His Cannes Palme D’Or-Winning It was just an ACCIDENT.
He’ll be at the new york film festival wednesday for a showing and q & a after missing his new york premiere there last weekend. The fest has Also rescheduled for Friday a conversation with Panahi and Martin Scorssee, A Highlight of the NYFF Talks Lineup That It Canceled Last Week.
Preiviously: Neon is hopoful that jafar panahi will be stateside as early as tuesday after an ongoing us governo shutdown slawed his visa causang to miss a busy weeks led by the new York Film Festival of HIS CANNES PALME D’Hinning movie It was just an ACCIDENT.
The Visa wasn’t ready in time to get him to that screening or to an nyff sit-down with martin scorssese, a highlight of the festival’s talks’ lineup, what Canceled. The Festival is Also Clearly Hopeful AS Well, Announcing Monday Evening a Newly Added Screening of the Film on Wed., Oct. 8 at 3 pm in alice brush with Q&A, notting that panahi is expecting to attach in person. The movie was also set to screen that night bam, one of the festival’s Venting.
The Fest’s Artistic Director Dennis Lim, Flaered by Panahi’s French Producers, Introducing the Premiere, Called the Director’s Absence “An Upsetting Situation for Many Reasons.” Over the years, panahi han twice jailed in iran and forbidden to film. “As nres to freedom of expression intensify here and around the world, he has shown us what it means to be an artist who meets the moment,” Said lim
Panahi Also Missed A DGA Screening Friday and Aa Bafta Screening Saturday in nyc and won’t make it to a tribute at the Mill Valley Festival Tonight.
That Said, neon, which is releasing the film theatrically this month, hopes panahi will be able to fly angeles tomorrow for the west premiere at Beyond Fest. There’s an Official Academy Screening on Sunday. He’ll have some back and forth Between la and ny.
Neon opens the film in New York at Film at Lincoln Center and Film Forum on Oct. 15 and in la at amc Century City on the 17thTh.
In his remarks, lim Called panahi “one the great filmmakers of the Last Several Decade. Persecution.
It was just an ACCIDENTPolitically Barbed But COMEDIC, Follows A Group of Wrongfull Incarcerated Working-Class People Seeking Revenge the Prison Guard who tortured and terrified. The man has captured has a peg leg like their abuser, yet they aren’t totally sura it’s the right Guy. The movie Stars Vahid Mubasseri as a mechanic with Painful Kidney injuries from prison beatings who first follows the distinctive thumping sound of a prosthetic leg that is etched and sets in motion. The Cast Includes Maryam Afshari, Mohamad Polylyasmehr, Majid Panahi, Georges Hashemzadea, Delmaz Najafi and Afssaneh Najamabadi.
Panahi’s French Producers Philippe Martin and David Thion Described A Harrowing 20-Day Shoots Two Cars only for Cast and Crew to Avoid Attracting Attention. Nononheless, The Team was stopped and arrested briefly, The Camera confiscated. Luckily, Most of the material residied on a Computer, which was not. Footage was Moved to France, with all post-professional in paris. It wasn’t clear unil the last minute that the entourage was able to leave for cannes. Women in the Cast Were Warned That they Big Trouble Back Home If they Walked The Red Carpet with Outrition Headscarves.
When Panahi Returned to Tehran from Cannes, The Producers Said, A Massive, Welcoming Crowd at the Airport Along with the Halo of A Palme D’Or have to have some safety net. “But you never know.
It was just an ACCIDENT is France’s Official Oscar Submission for Best International Feature.
Panahi was in Competition in Cannes in 2018 with 3 faces, Won the Camera d’or for his first film The White Balloon in 1995 and won a jury priza in un -certin reg for Crimson Gold In 2003.
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