Producers discuss increased challenges being faced by Iranian filmmakers
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Courtesy of Venice Film Festival With war still ravaging Iran — six months after the country was attacked by U.S. and Israeli forces — the Venice Film Festival is set to launch two Iranian films that will provide viewers vivid on-the-ground insight on the conflict’s societal impact as the country contends with bombs and its repressive regime.
Ali Asgari, who was in Venice Horizons last year with dark satire “Divine Comedy,” is set to return to the Lido — this time in competition — with “A Bit of Light,” a drama featuring “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” star Misagh Zareh as a doctor who loses faith in the future after being arrested by Iranian authorities and having his medical practice in Tehran shut down.
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