Iran rejects Cannes movie award as ‘biased, political’

Iran on Monday rejected as “biased and political” final week’s award at Cannes for a movie a few serial killer who focused intercourse employees in an Iranian Shiite shrine metropolis.

Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi gained one of the best actress award on the Cannes Movie Pageant on Saturday for her efficiency within the movie “Holy Spider”, directed by Danish-Iranian Ali Abbassi.

Ebrahimi, who went into exile following a smear marketing campaign about her love life, was awarded for her portrayal of a journalist attempting to unravel the serial murders of intercourse employees in Iran’s holy metropolis of Mashhad.

The Cinema Organisation of Iran, affiliated with the tradition ministry, lashed out on the choice, accusing the competition of “committing a biased and political act by praising a false and disgusting movie”.

The movie presents “a distorted picture of Iranian society and overtly insults the beliefs of Shiites”, the organisation stated in an official assertion.

It stated the movie “follows the identical path as Salman Rushdie in ‘The Satanic Verses,'” in reference to the Booker Prize-winning British-American novelist of Indian descent.

Iran’s former supreme ruler Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had in 1989 referred to as Rushdie’s work “blasphemous” and issued a fatwa, or spiritual edict, calling for the creator’s homicide.

“Holy Spider” is impressed by the true story of a working-class man who killed intercourse employees within the early 2000s and have become referred to as the “Spider Killer”.

The film, which was shot in Jordan, reveals Iran’s second-largest metropolis with its spider-like community of streets resulting in the shrine.

Its star Ebrahimi started her profession in Iran, nevertheless it was derailed when a intercourse tape was leaked on-line in 2006 allegedly of her and her boyfriend.