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Farhadi’s Latest Drama Receives 5-Minute Standing Ovation in Cannes Festival

July 14, 2021


Farhadi’s latest Cannes competition entry A Hero is a social drama about moral dilemmas and the alacritous flexibility of principles.
The auteur focuses on his usual themes, holding up a mirror, and offering his viewers glimpses into the psyche of contemporary Iranian society.
The brilliant performances of actors and Farhadi’s engaging script have received critical acclaim since yesterday.
The drama delivers a tale about ethics and integrity, and how they clash with each other when personal stakes are greater.

Shot during the pandemic in Shiraz and readied in time to debut at Cannes, the distribution rights of A Hero have already been scooped up by Amazon, and it is expected to drop on Prime video soon.
Farhadi, a Cannes favourite, attended the premiere alongside his cast on the Croisette, where he received a standing ovation lasting several minutes even before the screening began. The film will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or (his third if he manages this feat.)
The soft-spoken and affable Rahim (Amir Jadidi) is out on parole from his prison sentence.
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A separated man with a son with speech impediment who lives with his sister’s family, he has defaulted on his debts that sent him to prison. But if he can manage to pay off his debts, he can avoid spending the rest of the years of his punishment in jail. He may have found a way out: his girlfriend Farkhondeh (Sahar Goldust) recently stumbled upon a lost handbag with some gold coins that she wants to sell to raise money for Rahim’s debt repayment.
But when the couple consult with a pawn broker, they realise the money may simply not be enough for a prison bailout. Rahim has a change of mind, and wants to return the coins.
When the prison officials get wind of Rahim’s deed after the bag is returned to its owner, they milk it to their benefit to distract public scrutiny of a prison death. Rahim is now forced to pretend he found the handbag, and the news gets picked up by local media that even prompts a charity to organise a fundraiser for his bailout.
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But things quickly go south when the disbelieving creditor raises doubts about Rahim’s story, over and above questioning the prudence of honouring Rahim for a deed that is only ethical and commonplace. Now, Rahim must convince his skeptical potential employer that his tale is indeed true, over and above getting hold of the funds raised by the charity that he is at risk of losing. In another director’s hands, things may have been different but this is Farhadi so the protracted drama unspools further with episodes in which Rahim takes one bad step after another, pushing him further away from his liberation.

update:
Asghar Farhadi Wins Grand Prix of Cannes Film Festival


Farhadi jointly won the award along with Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6.”.
In his speech after receiving the award from eminent American filmmaker Oliver Stone, Farhadi said he has not stopped making films in the past 36 years despite all the restrictions with the hope of raising questions about the bitter social conditions of Iran.
He also expressed hope that he would be able to continue his career as he is confident that awareness-raising is one of the most important ways to save Iran.
Farhadi’s latest film, A Hero, received a five-minute standing ovation in its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a few days ago.


Respected brother, if you will allow me to express my take on this: I do not believe tat this is something a patriotic Iranian ought to celebrate or take pride in.

Why?

1) Almost all of Farhadi's motion pictures shot in Iran present a dark, negative, depressing image of Iranian society. Which is precisely why they are being showered with praise in the west.

In fact, a couple of years ago, he directed a film which reflects upon certain social issues affecting Spain... And guess what? That film was treated as insignificant by western reviewers, and it was entirely ignored by major film festivals. Whereas his socially critical films about Iran are, on the contrary, advertized in the most frenetic ways.

Like virtually every other Iranian director whose works get crowned at western-based film festivals, Farhadi is echoing one way or another the dominant anti-Iran propaganda spread by western regimes and their mainstream media mouthpieces. All these filmmakers are aligned on the liberal agenda.

Truth is that Iranian cinema as a whole (much like other forms of contemporary Iranian arts) has mostly turned into a weapon instrumentalized against Iran by her existential enemies.

Works that get major airplay in the west, are generally co-produced by western companies. What is more, their scripts or the fundamental ideas underlying them, often originate from western sources.

There's this ominous German woman who is present each year at Tehran's international Fajr film festival... it is said that she puts on the table critical topics to be turned into films by Iranian directors - in exchange for funding offered by major western production companies, as well as guarantees of effective subsequent promotion.

2) Please do not assume for a second that film festivals in the west are politically neutral events (like the one in Cannes, which is actually one of the worst, even though culturally more discerning than the US Oscars, which of course are just as biased on the political level).

In fact, they are weapons of soft power in the hands of the globalist oligarchy to promote their nefarious agenda. Hence, standing ovations by an elite public devoted to this agenda, aren't really a good sign.

When it comes to Iranian cinema, a look at the sort of films that win awards at international festivals versus those which don't, make the politically motivated discrimination quite obvious. Indeed, truly fine feature length films such as Mājarāye Nimruz, Tangeye Abu Ghorayb, Lottery or valuable TV series such as Gāndo or Khāneye 'Amn will never gain entry into western-based festivals, western film critics will simply ignore them or severely put them down, and internet websites focused on cinema will systematically rate them below their actual worth.

Even a somewhat more commercial but interesting production such as Mārmulak was not well received by western critics, simply because a revolutionary-oriented film fund financed its production, and even though this movie could actually be interpreted in different ways. So you can imagine how important contributions to Iranian cinema such as the seminal early work of Hatamikia have been boycotted in the west due to not conveying the kind of messages nor promoting the sort of values western regimes want the Iranian public to be subjected to.

3) Generally speaking, "celebrities" (as they are referred to nowadays in Iran) from show business and sports, are some of the most lowly elements of Iranian society as far as their political engagement is concerned. Complete westernized sell-outs in their immense majority, I've no doubt you'd be profoundly shocked to notice how diametrically opposed their views are to your nationalist or patriotic political ideals.

From Mahnaz Afshar's cowardly "Twitter" attack against Iraqi PMU's who were selflessly providing aid to victims of natural hazards in Khuzestan in 2019, to the myriad of actors who participated in an advertisement video inviting Iranians to make their DNA samples available to shady US-companies with probable zionist links (which will only help the enemy develope gene-specific biological weapons customized against Iranians), political and social attitudes displayed in these circles are truly disgusting.

4) I also used to view occurrences like the recent one at Cannes under a positive light. Until Jafar Panahi's treasonous conduct during the failed 2009 "Green movement", as well as the politically biased, official backing Panahi received from organizers of western film festivals (Cannes in particular), achieved to open my eyes for good.

You see, we might tell ourselves these prizes awarded to Iranian filmmakers by western institutions testify to the talent of contemporary Iranian artists. And even though they can be considered as talented indeed, the fact remains that the only reason behind these awards is the subversive social-political messaging these foreign commissioned films carry through, in line with the zio-American "regime change" agenda against Iran.

These films are not made for the broad public (although most of those intended for the masses are equally subversive and dangerous, but that's another topic): their target audience is the 20%-40% most educated segment of the western public, as well as the of Iran's cinematographic, artistic and intellectual social microcosm, ie an influential elite within these respective countries.

And the message they transmit, or in other terms, what those western viewers who engaged in a 5-minute standing ovation were probably thinking, can be described as follows: "Iranians are such wonderful people, they're in fact pretty much like us. See, such a secularized and liberal folk, who share the same aspirations and outlooks on life... so we can and should sympathize with them. Only problem is their fundamentalist, extremist regime, which curtails their liberties and prevents them from deploying their enormous potential. Such a pity that is! Look how emancipated and independent-minded their women are, and yet they must struggle against Islamic law imposed by the reactionary regime, as well as repressive paternalistic traditions." Etc.

This line of propaganda is engineered by Iran's existential enemies in order to ensure that in the event of another "colored revolution" attempt or even some worse form of destabilization, this intellectually (and materially) privileged class of the west will unconditionally and automatically support the western- and zionist-backed opposition to the IR.

The zio-American empire is implementing a two-pronged propagandistic discourse against Iran aimed at its own public: while it feeds the liberal crowd of westerners with narratives such as the above, it simultaneously brainwashes conservative and more radical segments of western society with outright racist / islamophobic types of discourse (e.g. anti-Iranian evangelical zionist propaganda and so on). Hence, all segments of society and all sensitivities of public opinion are covered and psychologically conditioned to sympathize with the "regime change agenda" against Iran at all times.

I would also recommend watching some of Omid Dana's videos dedicated to the subject:



 
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Because of the new Delta variant Iran is now in the fifth wave of Covid-19. However it seems that the situation has not gotten out of control as we have seen in India.

In the USA numbers are surging again with 300 deaths a day. Indonesia is seeing 1000 deaths a day.

Meanwhile countries that are determined to only purchase western vaccines have a problem. Western vaccines like Pfizer can only be stored in special freezers in near winter conditions.

That could explain why Japan has only given out one dose to 20% of their population while only 0.5% of their population are fully vaccinated, despite the fact that they are now hosting the Olympics.

Vaccine hesitancy is a serious issue as well. Some countries like Poland, although they have had ample access to large quantities of the western vaccines, have not been able to convince 40% of their population to vaccinate.

In Iran 3% are fully vaccinated while 6% have received at least one dose. This has added up to more than 8 million doses so far. Mostly medical professionals, the elderly and vulnerable people have received shots.

In Iran Covid-19 vaccines are expected to be available to the general public in September. One of the reasons for the slow rollout is because foreign vaccine makers have failed to live up to their quotas. Despite this Iran has so far been able to acquire 13 million doses from foreign suppliers.

The company behind the Cov-Iran Barekat vaccine is now producing 1.2 million doses per week. It takes 16 days after production for each dose to reach patients, because of quality control issues among others.

I have seen articles in western news outlets stating that Iranians are flooding to Armenia to get vaccinated out of desperation. However Armenia's president has stated that his country has only given out 100,000 doses to foreigners so obviously these claims are unfounded.

 
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Erdogan says Taliban should end "occupation" in Afghanistan. Turkish President said, the Taliban should "end the occupation of their brothers' soil", and played down a warning from the militant group of consequences if Turkish troops remain in Afghanistan to run Kabul airport.

در سوریه هم ترکیه قرار بود جای امریکا رو پر کنه
هنوز هم برنامش هست

بیچاره مظلوم عبدی
بیچاره کردها
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ظهور اولین نام از حشد شیعی کابل

پس از سالها انتظار خلیلزاد

باید دید رفتار های این گروه را با افراد غنی و طالبان و امریکا و ترکیه در فرودگاه کابل

و این داستان ادامه دارد​
 
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Because of the new Delta variant Iran is now in the fifth wave of Covid-19. However it seems that the situation has not gotten out of control as we have seen in India.

In the USA numbers are surging again with 300 deaths a day. Indonesia is seeing 1000 deaths a day.

Meanwhile countries that are determined to only purchase western vaccines have a problem. Western vaccines like Pfizer can only be stored in special freezers in near winter conditions.

That could explain why Japan has only given out one dose to 20% of their population while only 0.5% of their population are fully vaccinated, despite the fact that they are now hosting the Olympics.

Vaccine hesitancy is a serious issue as well. Some countries like Poland, although they have had ample access to large quantities of the western vaccines, have not been able to convince 40% of their population to vaccinate.

In Iran 3% are fully vaccinated while 6% have received at least one dose. This has added up to more than 8 million doses so far. Mostly medical professionals, the elderly and vulnerable people have received shots.

In Iran Covid-19 vaccines are expected to be available to the general public in September. One of the reasons for the slow rollout is because foreign vaccine makers have failed to live up to their quotas. Despite this Iran has so far been able to acquire 13 million doses from foreign suppliers.

The company behind the Cov-Iran Barekat vaccine is now producing 1.2 million doses per week. It takes 16 days after production for each dose to reach patients, because of quality control issues among others.

I have seen articles in western news outlets stating that Iranians are flooding to Armenia to get vaccinated out of desperation. However Armenia's president has stated that his country has only given out 100,000 doses to foreigners so obviously these claims are unfounded.

the people actually go to Armenia to get vaccine but its only an option available to wealthy and upper class . we are behind our vaccination schedule for various reasons and that's why it's happening. and about "However it seems that the situation has not gotten out of control as we have seen in India." part well its out of control if you try to find a hospital bed for one of your family then you'll see how hard it had become to find one.
in news we heard several thousands of bed were readied for covid patient by IRGC and Army but in reality we didn't saw their effect and you had to wait for hours or even days to get a bed in hospitals. A 10 liter cylinder of Oxygen on the market is more than one and half million of toman and you guess how long it last for a patient. in hospitals if only you were aware of the pressure on personnel
 
Same delays happened before for:
- Making domestic car fuel
- Making more standard car fuel
- Making COVID kits

Iran is the first and only Muslim country to make COVID vaccine in millions.

:)

We will export it just like we did with car fuel.

Power comes from within not beyond the border.
Invest in yourself, in hard work and science.
 
Many nations are going through difficult times because of Covid, Iran is not alone in this regard.

Still you can't compare the situation in Iran to what happened in India, which was a human catastrophe on an unprecedented scale where the state institutions completely crumpled.

Yes some wealthy Iranians may be going off to foreign countries to receive vaccines but it's not on the scale that some western media outlets are proposing.

Also doing so is nothing remarkable. I remember when the vaccines were first introduced in the US, some Canadians went across the border to get vaccines months ahead of time.

As you can see even a wealthy and western allied nation like Taiwan has come up short when it comes to vaccinating its population. Only 0.5% of its population is fully vaccinated. There are several reasons for this but its primarily because they are only willing to use western vaccines.

Like I said, vaccine hesitancy is also huge problem for some countries. For example Poland has not been able to vaccinate more than 40% of its population because the majority are simply not interested.

Iranians that want to blame the government for not embracing western vaccines are not too bright. Look at Brazil and Philippines, both US allies, yet they are relying heavily on Chinese vaccines for their needs.

Even Japan, Taiwan, have received very small numbers of doses from the US/EU. Why ? Western vaccines are difficult to transport and expensive since massive air conditioned, cooled transportation is required.

For many countries that don't have phenomenal infrastructure or access to freezer units, especially in this hot summer, with global warming, it's just not feasible. Look at India, their vaccination efforts have fallen short,especially compared to China.

For Iran to produce its own vaccines, it has taken a few months longer, but in the long run it will be worth it for the nation. After what happened in India, producer nations are much more likely to hoard stockpiles for booster shots. Depending on foreign producers, especially when they're all so far from Iran, is not feasible for Iran.

Soon Iran will not only supply its own population but will also make billions from selling vaccines, not to mention helping humanity with medicine. The USA/EU and China/Russia, as we've seen cannot meet the worlds demand quickly enough.

The more countries produce vaccines and medicine in general the better. Iran made the right choice in the long run.

the people actually go to Armenia to get vaccine but its only an option available to wealthy and upper class . we are behind our vaccination schedule for various reasons and that's why it's happening. and about "However it seems that the situation has not gotten out of control as we have seen in India." part well its out of control if you try to find a hospital bed for one of your family then you'll see how hard it had become to find one.
in news we heard several thousands of bed were readied for covid patient by IRGC and Army but in reality we didn't saw their effect and you had to wait for hours or even days to get a bed in hospitals. A 10 liter cylinder of Oxygen on the market is more than one and half million of toman and you guess how long it last for a patient. in hospitals if only you were aware of the pressure on personnel
 
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Whoo, big bad US weapons... Larzidam az tars.

There are just a few aspects brothers may have overlooked (with all due respect):

1) What's the range of these tactical nuclear A2G bunker buster munitions? Indeed, not enough to threaten Iranian underground ballistic missile bases beyond the range of Iran's formidable integrated air defence network.

Keep an open mind like the rest of the armed forces, they don't sit around bolstering about how Iran is an impenetrable fortress. They consider every possibility, IN THE WORDS OF Gen. Salami -> "Planning for the worst case scenario".

I agree, for them to use their future tactical 50 kiloton nuclear bombs, they'd have to penetrate Iranian IADS, or sneak through Iran's topography to reach close to their targets. Iran does have great detection capabilities that's correct, that being said, I'm not going to sit here and pretend Iran is a impenetrable fortress. I don't know what black projects they have worked on, or their offensive cyber capabilities but don't keep a closed mind about it. Prepare for the worst case scenario.

In other words, US aggressors would need to neutralize Iran's air defences first, before even thinking of striking Iranian ballistic missile bases with these nuclear bunker busters. Now here's the point: this will leave enough time for Iran to fire hundreds upon hundreds, if not thousands upon thousands of ballistic missiles before the bulk of her essentially mobile AD arsenal is annihilated?

That is certainly the hope, and belief I have as well. Although I am not talking about US, only Israel. You mention Patarames later on here, and he also said himself, the bases need to empty out of their inventories as soon as possible because they will not be able to survive forever in the face of nuclear Jericho missiles or nuclear bunker busters in the event that their is a air campaign (although it is doubtful in my opinion).

2) What do you think the international political repercussions of the US regime using 30+ nuclear weapons on Iran would be (since according to an Iranian military official, Iran has at least one under-mountain missile base per province)? Knowing that this isn't the year 1991 anymore. China and Russia would duly take note and adjust their nuclear first-use doctrines against the US regime accordingly.
You know better than I do, about the Zionist control of western and global media. They will make up some lie that Iran was imminently about to conduct first strike on Israel with WMDs only to find out year later it was a lie. The Israelis can use how ever many nuclear weapons they want and the media will always sympathize with them, not to mention they will justify them as being "tactical" and "in remote areas" like how they flattened an Afghan village with the MOAB. Again, prepare for the worst case scenario. Don't forget, they don't have to use their Jericho's as a first strike, they can wait until they feel they can use it with justification as I will mention later.

3) User Patarames on Twitter stated that Iran's underground BM bases are safe even from tactical nukes if I remember correctly.
He never said they are immune, no base is immune, you strike the base with enough force to disable it. Simple as that, the smaller the CEP, the less force required.
Patarames mentioned about Jericho missiles being used as a first strike nuclear weapon which is likely the main option. If you re-read again, he clearly mentions that while the CEP of these Jericho's are too large to disable the bases because the nuclear hardened bases can absorb the shock of a nearby nuclear blast, multiple hits to the silo entrances with a 30m CEP improved Jericho will be difficult to withstand.

Hence, remember why a system like Bavar-373 was developed with anti-ballistic missile capability. It is the main threat from the Zionist's. The S-300PMU2 will also be useful in this regard. We need them to counter their Jericho's as much as possible so that we can respond with power. They have over 100 nuclear Jericho's and 200 is worst case.
4) Fatwa against nuclear weapons or not, is it not a given that hazrat-e āghā must have thought this through in minute detail? If he was short sighted and naive, could Iran have survived since he took over Supreme Leadership in 1988, ie more than 30 years ago? Answer is clearly negative.

I agree, like i said before they have "planned for the worst case scenario". I'm sure they have thought about it.
We need to ask yourselves, if Iran was at such an existential risk of a US aggression, why the heck haven't they dared to launch an attack to this day? To this question, sectarianists and other people with not so positive views of Iran will postulate outlandish hypotheses such as a supposed "secret, under-the-table alliance or understanding between Iran and the US against Arabs / Sunnis etc", and more rational observers will be compelled to come to the realization that Iran's conventional deterrence plus its potential breakout capability have been efficient enough to discourage the enemy from direct military aggression.

Imao, yes stupid people who cannot contemplate that Iran is actually very very capable resort to these ridiculous postulations.

That being said, Iran has made it so, that only nuclear force can stop it, because it has developed such immense conventional counter force and protection. Everything you said here I agree with, that being said, their is one way to stop Iran and it is pretty clear as I've said earlier, low CEP nuclear missiles to each known base, including Natanz and Fordow.

Unlike the Soviet Union, we do not have a counter-force triad of which we can respond with, which is why I am an advocate for nuclear submarines and a submarine launched Khorramshahr. It is very hard to justify in the international scene, but theoretically It can be done, and the worst case scenarios need to be considered. These plans are not so different from what the US and Soviet Union had planned for each other in case of war. They don't care about international justification, they care about survival.

This is a winnable war, but it requires very effective anti-Jericho capability (Bavar-373). I promise you, if we unload 1000 ballistic missiles onto Tel-Aviv with an average warhead of 750kg at Mach, lets say 8. They will use their Jericho's to stop the bases at all costs.
 
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This is a decent fighter for Iran, but as we all know about Russia. Not sure about the range though.

Basically a 5th gen F-16.

75 of these and 75 of SU-30 could keep Iran airforce afloat for next 20 years until Iranian domestic projects take off.

All in cost will be less than 20B of maintenance and spare parts. (not sure the exact figure too lazy to do the calculations)

once Iran starts doing its own maintenance and spare parts production plus using Iranian arms (instead of Russian ones) costs will drop for servicing the aircraft.
 
Basically a 5th gen F-16.

75 of these and 75 of SU-30 could keep Iran airforce afloat for next 20 years until Iranian domestic projects take off.

All in cost will be less than 20B of maintenance and spare parts. (not sure the exact figure too lazy to do the calculations)

once Iran starts doing its own maintenance and spare parts production plus using Iranian arms (instead of Russian ones) costs will drop for servicing the aircraft.
At this point, considering we've operated with little air capacity for so long, would it even be worth it as a stop gap...

Might as well use that 20B for domestic infrastructure because with current missile capabilities who will attack? As well as the F-35s are so expensive to operate, no one in the region can field many of them, we will likely be dealing with highly upgraded F-16/F-15 for the next 10 years atleast.

I think it was around 15mil operating cost per year for 1 F-35... crazy.
 

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