CANNES, France - normally filmmakers of the Festival de Cannes send their e-mail communications. Renowned international Iranian Director Jafar Panahi smuggled her out of the country and the organizers of the festival on a USB key, hidden in a cake.
The film, "This is not a Film," is response Panahi to his cinematic condemning year last a sentence of six years ' imprisonment and a prohibition on 20 years of cinema. Panahi and Iranian Director colleagues Mohammad Rasoulof, who handed the same sentence, appealed and are awaiting decisions late in their cases.
"This is not a Film" is a kind of documentary-style look at the legal vacuum of the Panahi. In this document, the Director switches places, the activation of the camera itself: fixed shots, recorded in the apartment of the Panahi Tehran, he had telephone conversations with his lawyer, speaks with his wife about the Outlook for the thrown penalty and feeds on the peta giant lizard.
In a bid sly to bypass less nominally pursuant to conviction - which prevents it from making films, but not, he reasons, on the face of their - Panahi acts off camera on a scenario he put on the sidelines after the authorities rejected. Using the Ribbon, it blocks the areas of the apartment to help viewers visualize all he would have shot the film, the authorities gave the project the green light.
"This is not a Film" - which the title is a play on the famous Magritte painting of a pipe, "This is not a Pipe" - is no less fascinating, an act of resistance and a meditation on art and its ability to transform society.
The film co-director and principal cameraman, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, said that he and Panahi are aware of the risk inherent in making the film and send it to the Cannes Festival, where it is eliminated from the competition earlier this week. Mirtahmasb goes to the C?te d'Azur to attend the screening of Thursday.
"We decided to take the risk of everything we do, whatever the situation," Mirtahmasb told reporters through an interpreter at a festival Friday press conference. "" "". We are not fighting the regime. ... We prefer to be free to be heroes in prison. ?
Mirtahmasb said no there was no official reaction of the Iran on "This is not a Film" or Iranian film that presented at Cannes, the Rasoulof "be Omid e Didar" or "goodbye."
From semi-clandestinely in residential buildings, Rasoulof film has a structure narrative classic that "is not a Pipe."
"goodbye" is the story of a lawyer of the rights of the young man who sets out to leave the Iran after authorities revoked his license to practice and to have recourse to extreme plan to bail out.
By including these films at the Cannes Festival, festival organizers not only help to spread the word on the fate off the coast of Iran filmmakers but also boost their profile in the Iran, where the art house films tend to have very limited circulation.
"More that talk us to their topic, more we move them here, most living in Iran," Serge Toubiana, head of the Cinémathèque fran?aise in Paris, told journalists at Cannes Friday press conference. Organizers said that Panahi was watching the press conference on Skype.
Panahi has won awards in Chicago and Berlin film festivals, but also at the Cannes Festival, where he won two more awards in 2003 and in 1995.
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