Navid Mohammadzadeh’s support for abused women in cinema

According to a Fars News Agency cinema reporter, Setareh Maleki, a young theater actor, announced this news on his personal page: Navid Mohammadzadeh canceled his performance with Abolfazl Kahani. He doubted, questioned, sought the right, and finally paid the price and stood up for the right. “Navideh Mohammadzadeh and her group had been trying and rehearsing for the theater for two years and were waiting to see the results of their efforts.” Mohammadzadeh, of course, did not announce this news on his personal page, but he has narrated the #metoo movement.

Abolfazl Kahani is the writer and director of the play “Vegetarian”, which was scheduled to be staged in Iranshahr Theater in August and September 1401.

Two days ago, the Instagram page of “Me too” published stories of the victims by Abolfazl Kahani, actor, playwright and younger brother of Abdolreza Kahani (cinema director). He deleted his page in cyberspace after these accusations. His brother also wrote: “… a criminal is a criminal and should be punished according to the law, but naming low-ranking people – even if their last name is famous – will not advance your movement!” “The essence of cinema is fame, and it was thought that you should go to the kings who hid under the protection of power and laughed at our beards!”

According to Fars, it was in the second week of April that a significant number of Iranian women filmmakers issued a statement protesting violence and harassment and the use of force against women in the cinema environment, calling for the formation of an independent committee in the cinema to investigate these narratives.

Subsequently, the signatories of the Statement of Protest against Sexual Abuse in Iranian Cinema and Theater selected 5 women filmmakers (Hanieh Tavassoli, Taraneh Alidosti, Somayeh Mirshamsi, Ghazaleh Motamed and Maral Jirani) to form an independent committee to follow up on this issue. . The head of the cinema organization also ordered the establishment of a “cinema professional ethics council” due to some margins raised and the problems of cinema activists and practitioners.

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