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Lebanese festival promotes “anti-Iranian films”: report
TEHRAN, Oct. 9 (MNA) -- The 11th edition of the Beirut International Film Festival (BIFF) is screening “anti-Iranian movies”, a pro-government Iranian news agency reported on Friday.
“Nader Davudi’s ‘Red, White and the Green’, an anti-revolution film that focuses on the events over the last three weeks prior to the 2009 Iranian presidential election will be screened at the festival,” the report said.
The documentary, in fact, is about the great optimism that most Iranian people showed toward the election.
Exiled Iranian filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf’s “A Dog’s Life”, a short film about the prohibition on keeping pets in Iran, is an entry to the Beirut festival, which runs until October 13.
The report called “A Dog’s Life” an “anti-Iranian film” that “attacks the pillars of the system by focusing a plan that bans keeping impure and dangerous animals.”
Last year, BIFF organizers were forced by Lebanon’s General Security to eliminate Hana Makhmalbaf’s “Green Days” from the festival’s schedule. The documentary was about the opposition that challenged Iran’s 2009 presidential election results.
“Green Days” and four other films were scheduled to be screened during a program entitled “Forbidden Films”.
The five films had been crossed out from the schedules by Lebanese authorities at the 8th and 9th editions of the BIFF.
The writer of the report expressed hope that “the resistance flows” but once again, General Security raised objections to screening the films, forcing organizers to remove them from the festival’s schedule.
“Nader Davudi’s ‘Red, White and the Green’, an anti-revolution film that focuses on the events over the last three weeks prior to the 2009 Iranian presidential election will be screened at the festival,” the report said.
The documentary, in fact, is about the great optimism that most Iranian people showed toward the election.
Exiled Iranian filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf’s “A Dog’s Life”, a short film about the prohibition on keeping pets in Iran, is an entry to the Beirut festival, which runs until October 13.
The report called “A Dog’s Life” an “anti-Iranian film” that “attacks the pillars of the system by focusing a plan that bans keeping impure and dangerous animals.”
Last year, BIFF organizers were forced by Lebanon’s General Security to eliminate Hana Makhmalbaf’s “Green Days” from the festival’s schedule. The documentary was about the opposition that challenged Iran’s 2009 presidential election results.
“Green Days” and four other films were scheduled to be screened during a program entitled “Forbidden Films”.
The five films had been crossed out from the schedules by Lebanese authorities at the 8th and 9th editions of the BIFF.
The writer of the report expressed hope that “the resistance flows” but once again, General Security raised objections to screening the films, forcing organizers to remove them from the festival’s schedule.
