This Oscar-nominated filmmaker wants to go back to Iran. Even if prison and war await.
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been confronted with a strange task in recent weeks: promoting his Oscar-nominated movie as his home country erupts in unrest and war.“On the surface, I am in a celebration,” Panahi said, speaking through a translator over Zoom from New York on Tuesday morning.
Source: Nbcnews.com
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