“If I return to Iran then I might be arrested on the airport,” says Ebrahimi throughout an interview in Hong Kong on the Mira Resort in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Ebrahimi was in Hong Kong this month as a part of the forty eighth Hong Kong Worldwide Movie Pageant (HKIFF), which included a screening of Shayda, for which Ebrahimi performs the titular position.
Shayda is the story of an Iranian girl dwelling in Australia who flees her controlling husband and, along with her daughter, seeks refuge in a ladies’s shelter.
No Bears: Venice jury prizewinner whose director was in jail on the time
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The movie is the directorial debut of Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari and the story relies on the experiences of Niasari’s mom.
The pageant additionally confirmed Tatami, the story of a younger Iranian judo star embroiled in a global political incident. Ebrahimi co-directed the movie with Israel’s Man Nattiv and likewise had a job in it.
Each movies comply with within the footsteps of the extreme crime thriller Holy Spider, which earned Ebrahimi the very best actress award at Cannes in 2022.
In that movie, directed by Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi, Ebrahimi performs a journalist who goes undercover as a prostitute to research a serial killer. The story relies on the real-life case of Saeed Hanaei, who murdered 16 ladies intercourse employees from 2000 to 2001 in Iran’s holy metropolis of Mashhad.
Those that had been concerned in Holy Spider, which was filmed in Jordan, paid an enormous value, Ebrahimi says.
“They’ll’t work in Iran any extra. They took this very large threat, however I feel they’re proud.”
Ebrahimi based her manufacturing firm, Alambic Manufacturing, in 2022, and her profession could be very clearly on the up.
“For years I didn’t seem in entrance of the digital camera as a result of in France, I didn’t know anybody and I wanted time to be taught the language and regulate to a brand new tradition, a brand new nation … every part,” she says.
A typical thread working by her movies is what occurs to those that defy Iran’s strict legal guidelines. Advocating for the rights of Iranian ladies additionally runs deep.
They don’t need us to inform the reality, to indicate the fact … we’ve got turn into a nightmare for them
That is why cinema is such an necessary platform, Ebrahimi says: it supplies a window into completely different cultures and permits individuals to inform necessary tales.
“It’s good to see individuals join with these tales.”
Throughout her time in France, Ebrahimi has related with different exiled Iranians who, she says, are additionally bravely telling the reality in regards to the Iranian regime.
“We’re all doing this political stuff and telling tales that they don’t need the entire world to listen to. They don’t need us to inform the reality, to indicate the fact,” she says.
“In some unspecified time in the future, you may’t overlook about your voice and we’ve got turn into an enormous one – and we’ve got turn into a nightmare for them.”
