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Iranian Director Soheil Beiraghi on Controversial ‘Bidad’: ‘It’s Not My Problem What the Islamic Republic Will Do to Me When I’m Back. It’s Theirs’
Iranian director Soheil Beiraghi talks controversial drama ‘Bidad,' totalitarianism ahead of Karlovy Vary premiere.
Iranian director Soheil Beiraghi is coming to Karlovy Vary Film Festival to present the independently made drama “ Bidad.” But he won’t be joined by his cast and crew. She becomes a viral sensation, but once she catches the unwanted attention of the regime, nobody can protect her: not her alcoholic mother, stuck in bad relationships, and certainly not her weed-loving friend. Beiraghi wanted to focus on a singer for a simple reason: “It has been years since Iranian women have been heard in Iran, because of the laws directed against them,” he notes.
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