Film to highlight problems tourists face due to Iran sanctions

TEHRAN,April 10(MNA) -- An Iranian director is currently making a movie, which explores the problems European tourists face in traveling to Iran due to the international sanctions imposed on the country. Two A-list actors from Switzerland will be in the cast for the film entitled “Welcome to Tehran”, director Mehdi Naderi told on Tuesday. “The real-life drama is about a European woman and her daughter in Tehran. It tells the story of people who face problems in traveling to Iran due to the international sanctions imposed on the country,” he added. No names were mentioned for the Swiss members of the cast. Naderi said that the efforts he has made to obtain the approval of Iranian officials for the work of the Swiss actors were in vain and the unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles have brought the film project to a halt. The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance must approve the qualification of foreign members of a cast, which are hired for a film project in Iran. Naderi’s war drama “Farewell Baghdad” represented Iran at the 83th Annual Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Films category in 2011.