Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Ali Abbasi attend the Telluride Film Festival

Zahra Amir Ebrahimi of “Holy Spider” poses in the Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented by IMDb and IMDbPro at Bisha Hotel & Residences on September 13. Abbasi was a student when the 2000–01 murders took place and was baffled by the conservative response that heralded Hanaei as a hero, and by how long it took for police to capture him. Abbasi began writing versions of the film shortly after seeing Hanaei interviewed in Maziar Bahari’s 2002 documentary And Along Came a Spider.

September 14, 2022 | 6:43 pm