Jafar Panahi: "They thought I film even in the cell"

The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi tells the first time in detail about his detention in freedom, he is already one on a re-arrest. The ten-day a week ago after a hunger strike on bail from Tehran's Evin prison freed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi ("The Circle", "Offside") recently reported the first time in detail about his detention. In an interview broadcast on Wednesday evening with "Art Journal", he describes the almost grotesque-examination, as the result of the Iranian authorities threatened him one of his family had re-arrest, whereupon he decided to hunger strike. Back in March, Panahi was with his wife, his daughter and 14 other people were arrested. All the detainees except Panahi was a few days later set free. Adventure disneys extreme gamecube skate Advice sipps Aerosol filling equipment Advanced humber institute learning technology Affiliated tribe of northwest indians Advent craft wreath The "Arte" interview that the agency had apparently suspected Panahi turn even in the fully supervised prison movie. He was brought from his cell at night and after the "title of my film," was asked. It did not relate to that film, in which he was working at home, but "to the one you turn here in your cell," says Panahi remember the words of the man who interrogated him. It was a turning entirely in prison, given strict controls impossible. Background of the interrogation was obvious that Panahi had spoken to like this fellow, he had shot five films on which he was "proud", and now in captivity to develop the screenplay for "movie of my life." These statements are intercepted and interpreted by the guards in the prison as an indication of a smuggled camera was. "All the searches, all the pressure is only fruit of their imagination, their fear of the cinema," Panahi says in the interview. "Even to think of a movie or dream can be a crime." While Panahi expressly because of his criticism is adapting to a re-arrest, his supporters are Abbas Kiarostami and the actress Juliette Binoche meets currently relatively mild. What was now known, may Kiarostami in Italy and recently filmed at the Festival de Cannes premiered relationship study "Copie conforme" in Iran do not come to the cinemas. Culture Secretary Javad Shamaqdari justified the decision with the clothes Binoche. It can be seen in the film mostly in airy summer dress. At best, the minister should "show some universities and private circles," the movie. As reported, had Binoche and Kiarostami in Cannes, where Binoche also received the prize for best actress, used massively for the hunger strike Panahi. The tears of the actress at the press conference, even the sign with Panahi's name, which she held up at the closing ceremony, had been observed worldwide. Panahi his part that was cut off to find in the prison of almost all information, thanked in the "Arte" call for the support of filmmakers from around the world who have helped him now to be with my family. "