UCLA Iran film festival opens Friday with family drama 'Mourning'
Still reeling from the 2010 arrests of directors Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi, Iran’s film community was dealt another blow in January when the Culture Ministry shut down the House of Cinema, a 20-year-old organization with 5,000 members that supports independent film. Despite these setbacks, 2012 has been a banner year for Iranian film. Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” won the Golden Globe for foreign-language film and took home the Academy Award in February. Shannon Kelley, programmer for UCLA’s Film & Television Archive’s , which ...
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