European Film Awards Opens With Jafar Panahi Iran Plea & Prizes For ‘Arco’ & ‘Sirāt’ – Updating Live

European Film Awards Opens With Jafar Panahi Iran Plea & Prizes For ‘Arco’ & ‘Sirāt’ – Updating Live

Iranian director Jafar Panahi kicked off the 38th European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday with an impassioned plea asking the world not to remain silent in the wake of “the unprecedented massacre” unfolding in Iran. Panahi was speaking ten days into a brutal crackdown by Iran’s hardline government of nationwide popular protests. At least 3,000 protestors are believed to have been killed and another 18,000 arrested, although Panahi reiterate…

Khamenei regime will not be able to keep control of Iran, says dissenting film-maker

Jafar Panahi, director of Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, says Iranian leaders want to destroy countryThe Khamenei regime will not be able to maintain control over Iranian society after the violent suppression of the latest wave of protests, one of the country’s leading film-makers has predicted.“It is impossible for this government to sustain itself in this situation,” the director Jafar Panahi told the Guardian. “They know it too. T…