The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and the momentous burst of rebellion against the Iranian regime prompted by the death of Mahsa Amini are reverberating profoundly at the Cannes Film Festiva…
At the festival’s opening ceremony on Tuesday night, legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve paid tribute to the war’s victims by reciting a poem from Ukrainian poet Lessia Oukraïnka, solemnly declaring: “I no longer have either happiness or freedom, only one hope remains to me: to return one day to my beautiful Ukraine.” One year ago, Cannes got off to an emotional start with remarks from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Significantly, Rasoulof, who was recently released from Tehran’s Evin prison, was not allowed to leave Iran to serve on Cannes’ main jury, he recently confirmed. Funding for the Ukrainian State Film Agency, the industry’s main financing body, has been diverted toward the war effort.
“Iranian cinema in the past six, eight months hasn’t had time to catch up,” said Khatami, who believes that “cinema in Iran will be divided into a before and after [the Mahsa Amini movement].”
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