Iran objected to France on Wednesday after the Cannes Film Festival picked a film about a serial killer in Iran who targets se* workers. “Holy Spider”, directed by Danish-Iranian Ali Abbasi, was nominated in Cannes’ main In Competition category at the festival that was held in the French Riviera resort last month. Iran’s Zar Amir Ebrahimi … Read more
Iran rejected last week’s Cannes Film Festival award for a film about a serial killer who targeted sex workers in an Iranian Shiite shrine city as “biassed and political.” On Saturday, Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance in “Holy Spider,” directed by Danish-Iranian Ali … Read more
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, an Iranian actress who lives in exile after a smear campaign about her love life, sobbed with joy after winning the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Ebrahimi, 41, won for her role as a journalist trying to unravel the serial deaths of prostitutes in Iran’s holy city of Mashhad … Read more
