Iran’s Reza Dormishian Prevented From Journey To India Movie Competition – Deadline

Reza Dormishian, Iranian filmmaker and producer of Dariush Mehrjui’s A Minor, which is ready to have it world premiere in competitors on the on-going Worldwide Movie Competition of India (IFFI) in Goa, has not been granted a allow to depart Iran, so is unable to attend the occasion.

Dormishian’s passport was confiscated on the airport and he was referred to the court docket of legislation for prosecution. All through the nationwide protests in Iran, Dormishian has been sharing posts on his Instagram account to point out assist for the protestors. 

Dormishian is a screenwriter, director, documentary filmmaker, and producer, born in 1981 in Tehran. The Iranian filmmaker has credit together with Hatred, I’m Not Offended!, A Minor and No Selection, both as a producer or director, which all screened in main movie festivals and received a number of awards. His motion pictures have typically criticized facets of Iranian society and have been topic to heavy censorship and prolonged bans in his house nation. White Chairs, which he directed and produced in 2017, was shot in New Zealand.

The Cow, directed by Mehrjui and produced by Dormishian, was one of many first movies in Iranian cinema to be featured in worldwide festivals. A Minor is the twenty seventh characteristic movie directed by Mehrjui, whose credit additionally embody Hamoun, Santouri, Mum’s Visitor, Leila and The Pear Tree. Mehrjui’s movies have travelled to festivals together with Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Tokyo and San Sebastian. 

Dormishian directed his debut characteristic Hatred in 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey, adopted by titles together with I’m Not Offended!, Lantouri, White Chairs and No Selection. His movies have screened at festivals together with Berlin, Karlovy Differ, Warsaw, Mar del Plata, Shanghai, Montreal, Vancouver and Istanbul.

A number of well-known Iranian actors together with Navid Mohammadzadeh, Bahram Afshari, Mehdi Koushki and Reza Koolghani had their breakout roles in Dormishian’s movies.