What did Golshifteh Farahani, the judge of the Berlin festival, say in a press conference that was applauded?
Both men were recently released on bail but a number of less internationally renowned filmmakers and artists remain behind bars. Farahani has been living in France since 2012. She was declared persona non grata back home and forced to flee after she got on the wrong side of Iran’s repressive Islamic Republic regime for taking a role in Ridley Scott’s 2008 spy thriller Body Of Lies, appearing without a hijab, and then later posing nude for French magazine Madame Figaro.
February 22, 2023 | 4:12 am
