Iranian government confiscates passports of “Closed Curtain” crew

Salon writes, Following the condemnation of Jafar Panahi's "Closed Curtain" and its reception at the Berlin Film Festival, Iranian government officials have seized the passports of  the film's co-director, Kambuzia Partovi, and actor Maryam Moghadam. In 2010, the Iranian government deemed Panahi's work anti-government propaganda and imposed a 20-year ban on his filmmaking. Panahi, however, carefully circumvented the ban in 2011 with his "This is Not a Film" (a nod to Magritte's "This is Not a Pipe") and followed it with "Closed Curtain," a film about a group of people being persecuted by government…

Continue reading Iranian government confiscates passports of “Closed Curtain” crew at Salon