BERLIN : Dozens of actors and filmmakers gathered on the Berlinale's red carpet on Saturday to show solidarity with anti-government protesters in Iran, with one exiled Iranian film director predicting the imminent fall of the country's government.'The regime's time is over,' Sepideh Farsi told Reuters on
BERLIN : Dozens of actors and filmmakers gathered on the Berlinale's red carpet on Saturday to show solidarity with anti-government protesters in Iran, with one exiled Iranian film director predicting the imminent fall of the country's government.
Some of those present at the demonstration – including Farsi, whose animation film"The Siren" opened on Thursday, and the award-winning director Farzad Pak – held up placards emblazoned with the Kurdish revolutionary slogan"Jin, Jîyan, Azadî" .The demonstration in Berlin came after protests flared up overnight on Thursday in Iran, with streets in a number of cities filling with people demanding the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.
Banning Iranian institutions sent"a very strong signal," Farsi added."Iranian institutions have always been here; their absence opens the place for other independent institutions." The demonstration followed a panel discussion exploring the role of the arts in the protests, during which Pak described the government as a"totalitarian regime where self expression is not allowed".
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