Award-winning Taxi filmmaker on art and politics in Iran
Jafar Panahi won this year’s Berlinale Golden Bear prize for his film "Taxi" Jafar Panahi, the winner of this year’s Berlinale Golden Bear prize, responded to statements from the head of Iran’s Cinema Organization about the “political” nature of Panahi’s recognition by the film festival, saying that “for many years the art scene [in Iran] has been haunted by the footsteps of politics”. Panahi accuses the Islamic Republic government of sacrificing numerous films for political reasons and blocking them from being screened, adding that the ...
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