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Venice’s ‘The Witness’ Adds Sales, Trailer Debuts, Director Talks Iran Situation, Working With Jafar Panahi (EXCLUSIVE)
Director Nader Saeivar talks situation in Iran and working with Jafar Panahi on ‘The Witness’ as the film sells to Benelux, France and Italy.
“I’ve been working with Jafar Panahi since 2017 and ‘3 Faces.’ He taught me it’s possible to make a good film with a small group of people, in secret. Saeivar, who gave “The Witness” a thriller-ish twist, doesn’t want to make films just for “ten days of a festival.” “The government is clinging to Iran like an octopus and it’s very difficult to remove its thousands of hands, and feet, from this country’s sick body.
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