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lifestyle SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2015 Iranian filmmakers defy regime to foreign acclaim ranian filmmakers, at home and in exile, are breaking free this regime but we will have a good history of Iranian cinema.” “What I had to say (about Iran), I said at length.... I don’t like Iranian ‘vampire western’ from restrictions-imposed both by their repressive govern- to redo what I know what to do because I feel like I’m not pro- Given the oppression and censorship in Iran, some of the Iment and by audience expectations-to form a creative ‘Iran is in me’ gressing enough,” Satrapi told AFP. freshest visions starting to emerge about the country come wave that is increasingly winning attention internationally. “Taxi” by Jafar Panahi, a dissident director living in Tehran Still, “Iran is in me, it’s my country,” she stressed, adding from the postrevolutionary generation born and raised out- The 2011 Oscar win for the Iranian movie “A Separation” who is defying a ban by the government there on making that the Islamic Republic’s crackdown on Panahi and freedom side their parents’ country. snapped the focus on what was coming out of the Islamic movies for 20 years, is the latest big success. His film, smug- of expression generally “particularly affects me”. Ana Lily Amirpour, an Iranian-American born in Britain, Republic. But those in the industry emphasise that other gled out of Iran, took top prize at the Berlin film festival last Makhmalbaf, who now holds a French passport and lives in offers one such movie: a black-and-white “vampire western” notable productions go well beyond regime-approved por- month.
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