Jafar Panahi

Berlin film fest honours imprisoned director

AFP: The Berlin film festival will honour dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, who was sentenced to prison in December, on the anniversary of the Islamic revolution Friday. Following tributes in Cannes and Venice, Berlin invited Panahi to serve on its jury. But though he is free on bail after receiving a six-year jail sentence and a 20-year film-making ban, he is barred from travelling abroad. The 61st Berlinale, as the event in known, has held a place open on the jury, chaired by Italian-American actress Isabella Rossellini, for Panahi "to show its support for his struggle for freedom". "We are still hoping that he will be able to come. We haven't given up," the Italian-American actress told reporters at the festival's opening news conference Thursday, as she sat next to his vacant chair >>>

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Please keep your spirit up

by Princess on Sat Feb 12, 2011 03:46 PM PST

It will not take 20 years. The foundations of the system which is trying to keep your free spirit captive will crumble much much sooner than that. I am sure of it. 

 


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What a miserable attempt to oppress free spirits

by radius-of-the-persian-cat on Sat Feb 12, 2011 03:22 AM PST

What a helpless reaction of the regime that faces its influence on the people declining day after day. A crowd of stupid old men who think that the free spirits of people and their desire for a self-determined life can be oppressed by manipulated elections or by putting them in prison. The mullahs might still be able to physically control people, but their ideas, books, their movies and songs will find their way to the global audience anyhow.

The detention of the two film directors Jafar Panah and Mohammad Rasoulof only promoted the interest of the german audience for the independent cinematography of Iran. Never before there were so many movies by iranian directors on the screens and on TV. Movies such as  "Women without Men" by Shirin Neshat , "The Green Wave" by Ali Samadi Ahadi, "Darbareye Elly" by Asghar Farhadi, "The circle" byPanahi and "White Meadows" by Rasoulof all show the german audience another Iran, one that loves freedom and culture and that"s wisdom is in a direct line to ancient persian values.


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ننگ بر رژیم زر و زور و تزویر

Amir19
Fri Feb 11, 2011 09:22 PM PST

جمهوری اسهالی ایران نفسهای آخرش را میکشد و دیر نخواهد بود که تمام قهرمانانی که هم اکنون در سیاهچالهای آن زندانی شده اند آزاد خواهند شد. هر ایرانی با غیرت فارغ از هر سلیقه سیاسی و مذهبی و قومی باید در راستای آزادی ایران بکوشد و باور داشته باسشد که ما ایرانیان لیاقت داشتن یک رژیم مدرن و دمکرات را داریم و هر چه زودتر دست در دست و با اتحاد این رژیم  غیر ایرانی را بزیر بکشیم  آفتاب مهر و محبت بر فلات ایرانزمین طلوع خواهد کرد. . من با استفاده از کارت تلفن راه دور در چند ساعت اخیر 54 خانواده ایرانی را بطور راندوم از تظاهرات 25 بهمن مطلع ساختم. شما نیز هرآنچه میتوانید انجام دهید. بی اعتنا بودن نشانه مرده بودن ما میباشد


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