City boy

This time it is not Hollywood who is threatening the Iranian interest in the film business.

It is the Islamic Republic embassy in Thailand:

The Bangkok International Film Festival has dropped the Cannes prize-winning animated movie “Persepolis,” which had been skedded as the new-look fest’s opening movie. Tuesday move followed a request from the Iranian Embassy in Bangkok.

The movie which is an autobiography of the cartoonist turned director Marjan Satrapi which follows her life through the 1979 Islamic revolution, mass execution of political prisoners of 1981, Islamic cultural revolution, introduction of forced headscarf law and other sexist and gender apartheid laws, Iran-Iraq war, mass execution of political prisoners in 1988, never ending repression, and their effect on the Iran - an Iran that she could not live in anymore.

The movie received a heart warming standing ovation for over 25 minutes at Cannes film festival.