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Iranian Drama ‘Yalda’ to Screen at Sundance Without Director Due to U.S.-Iran Tensions
14.01.2020 - 23:21 / variety.com
U.S.-Iran tensions have put Iranian director Massoud Bakhshi whose daring drama “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness,” is set to premiere at Sundance, in a tough spot.
The film’s production and sales companies issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing that Bakhshi will not personally be attending Sundance due to the current U.S.-Iran crisis. But they also denied recent Iranian media reports claiming that the director had pulled “Yalda” from the festival.
“Massoud Bakhshi is proud that his film
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29.01.2020 / 00:56
'Dream Horse': Film Review | Sundance 2020
Anyone who saw director Louise Osmond's 2015 documentary Dark Horse, winner of the audience award at Sundance that year, knew it was a racing certainty that this almost-too-good-to-be-true story would get made into a feature film someday.
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28.01.2020 / 01:41
‘Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness’: Film Review
Imagine a high-ratings, high-stakes game show that trivializes a convict’s life-or-death fate for public consumption. As wild as it sounds, a version of this reality TV entertainment apparently really exists in modern-day Iran, where writer-director Massoud Bakhshi’s “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness” is set, and where a wildly popular edition of it has been airing for nearly a decade.
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24.01.2020 / 03:51
Outgoing Sundance Festival Director John Cooper Reflects on 30 Years of Highs and Lows
John Cooper, the outgoing director of the Sundance Film Festival, has been on Robert Redford’s payroll for 30 years.
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20.01.2020 / 16:51
Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin on Challenges of Producing Sundance-Player ‘Yalda’ in Iran
Massoud Bakhshi’s second feature, “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness,” has its world premiere in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, to be screened without the director.
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09.01.2020 / 00:31
Crashed Ukraine Airlines plane in Iran could have been downed by missile strike or bomb
An aviation safety expert has said the crash of the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight in Iran was caused by a "catastrophic intervention of some kind".
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08.01.2020 / 21:21
Trump Says Iran Appears to Be "Standing Down" After Strike
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran appears to be “standing down” and said no Americans or Iraqis were harmed in Iran's Tuesday ballistic missile strike on two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops.Speaking from the foyer of the White House (watch below), Trump announced that the U.S.
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08.01.2020 / 18:01
Cardi B bashes Trump, says she's seeking Nigerian citizenship amid tensions with Iran
Cardi B says she’s planning to file for citizenship in Nigeria after taking a dig at President Donald Trump for his part in increasing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.