GOLDEN APRICOT Demands to Release Jafar Panahi
12:14 – 22.05.10
The administration of the Armenian annual film festival GOLDEN APRICOT
joined a petition demanding the release of the Iranian film director
Jafar Panahi’s release.
`The entire staff of GOLDEN APRICOT IFF, being convinced that
imprisonment of Jafar Panahi, the humanitarian interpreter of Iranian
cinema, is unfair; joins this initiative and signs this petition
demanding his and his colleagues release from the prison.
`Armenian spectators had a chance to explore the problems of women in
the present Iranian reality in 2007, when Jafar Panahi’s film
"Offside" was shown within the framework of the 4th GOLDEN APRICOT
IFF. Jafar Panahi deserves the right to be heard and must be given the
freedom to create,’ reads the petition.
Tert.am