Another reaction from the cinema organization to the “Holy Spider”
The director general of the Cinema Organization’s Office for Supervising the Screening and Screening of the Film Organization emphasized that the producer of the film “Holy Spider” has produced his film abroad with foreign capital and without any coordination and coordination with the country’s cinema authorities.
Theater News Base: Continuing the stance of the directors of the Ministry of Guidance and the Cinema Organization regarding the film “Holy Spider” directed by Ali Abbasi, which was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival, Ruhollah Sohrabi said: “The Holy Spider”, which had previously applied for a production license in Iran under another name And was rejected by the officials of the cinema time, without any permission and coordination with the cinema officials of the country, he prepared and produced his film abroad and the theme he chose to become a film was made much earlier by Mr. Irajzad in Produced and screened domestically.
He continued: “What was produced in the country with the theme of a serial killer is the movie” Spider “, which was released in cinemas a while ago, and the approach, content and message of the movie bear no resemblance to the insulting and purposeful movie of the Holy Spider.” In fact, the director of the film Spider took a clear position regarding the misuse and misrepresentation of the name, text and atmosphere of his screenplay by the Danish-Iranian writer and director of the film “Holy Spider”. There were protests and complaints.
He said: “What we have seen many times in the past is a completely political and meaningful orientation of a festival like Cannes towards the works of Iranian filmmakers, which in this case also seems to be essentially important for Cannes and its policymakers, not the artistic and cinematic value of a work.” Or its factors, but injecting their views from Iran and Iranians to the global audience, and unfortunately the judges, knowingly or unknowingly, have fallen into the trap of the main policy makers of the festival.
The director general of the Cinema Organization’s Office for the Supervision of Film Screening and Screening stated that the output of “Holy Spider” is more than anything Islamophobic and anti-Iranian: “I wonder how some people, among whom there are special people and familiar names, can see this.” The very bold and quite purposeful part of this festival strongly ignores the political and falls in love with its appearance. What is happening at the Cannes Film Festival is not a complex and unsolvable equation, and with a simple examination one can see their main intentions and goals. I do not know that the goal of the “Holy Spider” is only the Islamic Republic, but in my opinion, its goal is broader and in a word, Islam, and to create monstrous and demonic figures of Muslims, and at the top of them is Iran and Iranians. Due to its inherent duty, the cinema organization will definitely decide and deal with the Iranian elements of this film, including the main or secondary factors, and those who may have played a role in its production.