Abbasi said making the film many years after the actual trial was difficult to research. Documents were not readily available and Hanaei's family was hard to access, so the story ended up shifting from a specific true-crime movie to a fictionalized one, what Abbasi describes as "Persian noir."
But some Western critics were troubled by graphic scenes that show the sex workers being brutally strangled with their own headscarves. Others criticized what they saw as the film's unnecessarily sexualized images of women's bodies.
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Unsurprisingly, Holy Spider also was the target of intense negative publicity from Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which threatened reprisal against those who worked on the film. The director is now in self-imposed exile. "I can't go back to Iran because I think I probably would get arrested right away," he said. "So this is what I'm trying to do as much as I can for the cause."
According to the IHRDC, the nine-member film review council of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, consisting of clerics, former directors, former parliamentarians, and academics, must approve the content of every film before production and again before screening. Films may be barred arbitrarily from screening even if all the appropriate permits were received in advance.
During the year the government prevented some human rights defenders, civil society activists, journalists, and scholars from traveling abroad. Human rights activists reported intimidating telephone calls, threats of blackmail, online hacking attempts, and property damage from unidentified law enforcement and government officials. The government summoned activists repeatedly for questioning and confiscated personal belongings such as mobile phones, laptops, and passports. Government officials sometimes harassed and arrested family members of human rights activists. Courts routinely suspended sentences of convicted human rights activists, leaving open the option for authorities to arrest or imprison individuals arbitrarily at any time on the previous charges.
Sifat Azad discusses a new report which draws attention to the striking underrepresentation of women who determine the content of news, literature, and television and film entertainment, as well as the negative portrayal of women in entertainment television and film. As a consequence, the role of women has had major societal effects, including gender inequity, she says.
Climate change, the world refugee crisis, punk rock, disability, questions over Australian identity and the resurgence in feminism are among the persistent themes in the program of the 64th Sydney Film Festival. Oh, and there's a film about some sex-cazed nuns in there too.
The program of 288 films, which will screen in cinemas across town June 7-18, features new work by big name directors including Sofia Coppola, Michael Haneke, Andrzej Wajda, Terrence Malick, Sally Potter, Doug Liman, Michael Winterbottom and Aki Kaurismaki. Many popular actors appear in new movies in the festival, including Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Ryan Gosling, Jeremy Renner, Rooney Mara, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Toni Collette.
The stories of refugees are a frequent theme in both documentaries and feature films. Veteran UK actor Vanessa Redgrave was moved to make documentary Sea Sorrow by the drowning death of three-year-old Syrian Alan Kurdi. Redgrave herself will be visiting Sydney and appearing in conversation.
Sure to raise eyebrows will be a documentary shot on a mobile phone from behind bars on Manus Island. Chauka Please Tell Us the Time is the work of Kurdish Iranian journalist and asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani. Boochani remains in detention but his co-director will be in attendance.
Australian director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) returns with Australia Day, a film set in Brisbane that involves characters of different ethnicities and tackles racism and national identity.
Contact, 1997 feature filmDr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster), after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
Arrival 2016 feature filmWhen twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors.
International Media Ministries"It's no secret that media is one of the most important ways to reach the world. International Media Ministries was founded on this premise in 1981, established as a strategic resource of Assemblies of God World Missions (USA). IMM produces a wide variety of media, including Bible-based dramatic films, children's television programming, and thought-provoking conversation starters, in almost 70 languages. IMM also develops mobile technologies for use in closed-access countries and trains local believers to leverage media to further the Gospel. Through our main headquarters in Madrid, Spain and a virtual team worldwide, IMM resources ministries throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and beyond. We work together with one goal: To see Jesus on every screen."
Older Nigerian video film: Abuja Connection (2003) English-language saga of two society ladies, Jennifer and Sophia, members of the same clan, who are business rivals in supplying prostitutes to members of the National Assembly.
Weekend Film: Nothing to Hide, 90 mins, 2017 (Stream via Moodle)"Independent documentary film dealing with mass surveillance and its acceptance in the public through the "I have nothing to hide" narrative."
Through the crosshairs : reading the weaponized gaze (Reed has DVD) (47 min) Roger Stahl, film director, narrator, screenwriter.; Media Education Foundation, presenter, publisher.; ;Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation 2018.
Weekend film: the Gig is Up: A Very Human Tech Doc, Shannon Walsh, Dir., 2021 (88 min) (Stream via Moodle)" A very human tech doc, THE GIG IS UP uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of people working for companies around the world, including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo."
As an ethnographic film, Hey Watch This! analyzes the interactions, beliefs, and life ways of a social group. The director is an anthropologist who explores why people share themselves and engage in sociality through media. The film began by exploring video blogging but ultimately analyzes the astonishingly vast array of media that interviewees used to communicate and record their life stories. The film is oriented around interviews and observations recorded at participant-run, early YouTube meet-ups that the director attended across the United States and one in Canada."
The festival,in its fifth year in India,brings together movies about Asia,Africa and South America. If the opening film,Gini Retickers Pray the Devil Back to Hell is about a band of Liberian women who came out to end the countrys decades-old civil war in 2003,Anthony Gilmores documentary Behind Forgotten Eyes goes to Korea during World War II and its thousands of women kidnapped by the Japanese army and forced into sexual slavery. There has been a conscious effort to put together a selection that will bring to light different issues related to human rights from across the world, says Alika Khosla,director of the festival,which will travel to Mumbai,Goa,Bangalore and Kolkata.
Among the 28 films,11 are from Asia. The films have been classified into four categories Body Public explores how people interact with public spaces; Not All in Good Faith has films about exploitation of the workforce; The Line That Defines features four films on migration; and Zones of War has 11 films that explore battle-scarred regions across the world.
Every screening will be followed by a discussion and often an interface with filmmakers. Filmmakers Gabriela Gutierrez Dewar and Sally Gutierrez Dewar will conduct a workshop on their film Tapologo,titled after a network established by a group of HIV-infected,former sex-workers in a squatter settlement called Freedom Park in South Africa. Also in attendance will be Canada-based Lila Ghobady,who will introduce the documentary Forbidden Sun Dance
that depicts the plight of artists who are put in prisons or forced into exile after the 1979 Revolution in Iran. It will be shown through the eyes of the dancer Aram Bayat who reveals the story of her political exile from Iran. The discussions with filmmakers are intended to allow viewers to get a better idea of the concerns that their films deal with, says Khosla,hoping to draw in a large crowd at the festival. 2ff7e9595c
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