Sundance Gets a Taste of Iranian Politics
PARK CITY, Utah— After the Sundance premiere Friday of â a brutal depiction of repression and government-sanctioned violence in Iran, the Iranian filmmaker behind the documentary, Ali Samadi Ahadi, struck a surprisingly hopeful chord. Not about human-rights violations in his homeland — the soft-spoken Mr. Ahadi, who lives in Germany, thinks those will continue. But he was upbeat about whether Iran was listening to the outrage that followed its jailing last month of/ âI am certain Iranâs leaders are very aware of the price they are ...
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