{"id":6928,"date":"2022-09-10T06:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2022-09-10T06:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:04:46","slug":"julianne-moore-leads-red-carpet-protest-for-jailed-iranian-filmmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/life\/2022\/09\/10\/news\/6928\/","title":{"rendered":"Julianne Moore leads red carpet protest for jailed Iranian filmmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US actress Julianne Moore, British director Sally Potter and Director of the 79th Venice International Film Festival, Alberto Barbera hold on Friday a poster showing Iranian director Jafar Panahi, asking for his release. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VENICE, Broadcasting News Corporation : Julianne Moore led a flash-mob protest on the Venice red carpet on Friday in support of filmmakers detained around the world, as the festival premiered the new movie from imprisoned Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Panahi, who won the top prize Golden Lion in Venice in 2000, was jailed in July along with two other filmmakers in the latest crackdown on Iranian civil society. Moore, who is leading the jury at this year\u2019s festival, was joined for the protest by dozens of other artists, including British director Sally Potter and last year\u2019s Golden Lion winner, France\u2019s Audrey Diwan. They held posters that also highlighted the detention of Myanmar filmmaker Ma Aeint and Turkish producer Cigdem Mater. Despite years of attempts to silence him, Panahi\u2019s new film \u201cNo Bears\u201d shows that he has lost none of his searing political critique and wry sense of humor. The film is partly focused on Iranians in Turkey, trying desperately to emigrate to Europe. But it also follows Panahi himself in a fictionalized version of his real life, as he struggles to make the film from across the border in Iran, which he was already banned from leaving. One of the film\u2019s stars, Mina Kavani, told reporters in Venice she was inspired by his focus, despite having to direct by phone and Internet. \u201cHe was in such concentration, he had such perfectionism \u2014 as an actress, I couldn\u2019t let myself get sentimental,\u201d said Kavani, who lives in exile in France. \u201cAll that counted for him was cinema. He just wanted to make his movie. I thought: \u2018I know now why he\u2019s Mr.Panahi.\u2019\u201c In 2010, Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison for \u201cpropaganda against the system\u201d following his support for anti-government protests. As can often happen in Iran, the sentence was never carried out but hung over him \u2014 and was only enacted in July when he went to enquire about two other filmmakers, Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad, who had just been arrested. Panahi and Rasoulof issued a defiant statement via the Venice organizers last week, vowing to continue making art. \u201cThe history of Iranian cinema witnesses the constant and active presence of independent directors who have struggled to push back censorship and to ensure the survival of this art,\u201d they wrote. Panahi has won the top prizes in Venice (for 2000\u2019s \u201cThe Circle\u201c) and Berlin (2015\u2019s \u201cTaxi\u201c), as well as best screenplay at Cannes (2018\u2019s \u201cThree Faces\u201c) \u2014 but was unable to accept either of the last two prizes in person. The crackdown on civil society has worsened even further under President Ebrahim Raisi, an ultra-conservative former judiciary chief who came to power last year. Yet Iran\u2019s independent filmmakers continue to punch above their weight, in spite of the pressure. A second Iranian film is competing for the Golden Lion this week \u2014 \u201cBeyond the Walls\u201d by Vahid Jalivand \u2014 a grim look at Iran\u2019s security state and those trapped within it. Jalivand was cautious in his words at a press conference on Thursday, saying \u201ca balance between the two sides\u201d was needed in Iran today. \u201cIn this movie the hero of the movie is a security official himself. We have unfortunately reached a perspective where it is totally bipolar,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cIf we can create the sense of brotherhood, dialogue will become much easier, there will be less violence. This is my true belief and I would still believe this even if I were living in Europe or the United States.\u201d NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VENICE, Broadcasting News Corporation : Julianne Moore led a flash-mob protest on the Venice red carpet on Friday in support of filmmakers detained around the world, as the festival premiered the new movie from imprisoned Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Panahi, who won the top prize Golden Lion in Venice in 2000, was jailed in July …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}