In Cannes,
Les Nuits de Mashhad
, by Ali Abbasi, won Zar Amir Ebrahimi the Best Actress award.
A very political price.
Exiled to France since 2008 following a sextape scandal - a video stolen from her laptop before going viral - the 41-year-old actress embodies resistance to the oppression of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where relationships outside marriage are prohibited.
Iranian authorities have compared
The Nights of Mashhad
to The
Satanic Verses,
by Salman Rushdie.
The same have just arrested, in Iran, the dissident filmmakers Mostafa Aleahmad, Mohammad Rasoulof (golden bear at the Berlinale with
The Devil does not exist
), and Jafar Panahi (golden bear with
Taxi Tehran
), accused of
“disorders of public order”
.
Censorship and repression are well underway in Tehran.
Read also
Cannes Film Festival: our reviews of
La Nuit du 12
and
Les Nuits de Mashhad
In
The Nights of Mashhad
, Zar Amir Ebrahimi plays Rahimi, a journalist from Tehran who investigates a series of murders of prostitutes in the holy city of Mashhad.
So…
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