The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, as well as Alice Diop, demanded the withdrawal of their latest films from the programming of an Iranian festival, where they would have entered without their consent.
tori and lokitaa Dardenne film that won a special prize at the 75th Cannes Film Festival last May, and Saint Omer by France’s Alice Diop, Grand Jury Prize winner at Venice, are listed in the “festivals of festivals” section of the Farj International Film Festival, according to the event’s Farsi website.
“Obviously it is impossible to conceive that my film could be screened within a film festival organized by a regime that for years has carried out a policy of violence and repression against its people and where the directors are locked up for having had the courage to exert their legitimate rights”. right to freedom,” said Alice Diop.
And to add: “I demand that my film be immediately removed from this programming and give my support to the courageous movement of protest and revolt in Iran that, we all hope, will be able to shake this dictatorship.”
“Dictatorial and murderous religious regime”
“We demand that our film be withdrawn from the program of this festival, which is the showcase of a dictatorial and murderous religious regime that we condemn,” the Belgians Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne wrote in a press release from their company. .Movies of the River.
“We stand in solidarity with those who fight against this regime and we salute their courage,” they added.
Numerous film professionals and artists have denounced the repression in Iran in recent months and mobilized again this Thursday in favor of their Iranian colleague Jafar Panahi, finally released on bail on Friday afternoon after seven months in prison.
Source: BFM TV
