Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Visit to Israel Gets Filmmaker “Cleansed” from Iran's Cinema Museum

Screen capture from the first page of Global Voices website ( as of 23.July.2013)
Here is a piece I wrote on the Iranian film maker, Mohsen Makhbaf's recent participation in Jerusalem Film Festival (JFF) that started a heated debate among Iranians. 

NOTE: Although, journalistically, I tried to give voice to both sides of the conversation in the abovementioned report, personally I was among the proponents of a dialogue between the civil societies of both nations in which capacity I see Makhmalbaf's trip as a constructive measure.

Here is a debate [fa] between Nargess Tavassolian who supported Makhmalbaf's participation in JFF  with Sadra Shahab, who signed the open letter criticising the director:



 And this is Nargess's blog post expressing her views about the same subject.