"Iran has berated the organisers of the Berlin film festival for awarding a prize to the celebrated director Jafar Panahi, who remains under house arrest in the Islamic republic," an articel by Ben Child published by The Guardian today reads.
"Panahi received the award for best screenplay at the weekend for his film Parde (Closed Curtain), made with fellow dissident and regular collaborator Kambuzia Partovi. It is the second movie Panahi has made (following 2011's This Is Not a Film) since being banned from making films for 20 years and sentenced to six years in prison in December 2010."
"The Hollywood Reporter called Parde "a more experimental and distanced diary in exile than This Is Not a Film", and a "moody, intellectually complex film that requires good will and brainwork on the part of the viewer to penetrate and enjoy". It topped a critics poll for the festival published by Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel newspaper," the author writes.
