'Whatever we do is political' says Iranian director Asgari at Venice
Ali Asgari’s drama follows a doctor who loses his medical practice and considers suicide before reconnecting with family, producers said in Venice.
- On Friday, Iranian director Ali Asgari premiered his feature 'A Bit of Light' at the Venice Film Festival, competing for the Golden Lion award with support from executive producers Taika Waititi and others.
- Forced to relocate from Tehran to Turkey to complete interior scenes under shellfire, filmmakers faced constant state pressure complicating every production element from permits to crew assembly.
- Lead actor Misagh Zareh portrays a physician who loses his medical license for treating anti-regime protesters and decides to end his life. Zareh described cinema as 'a weapon of defence' against despair.
- Screenwriter Shadmehr Rastin noted repeated tragedy has left Iranians feeling 'anaesthetised,' while Asgari emphasized that in current Iran, 'even having access to the internet becomes a political act.'
- Survival in contemporary Iran depends on small acts of endurance rather than grand hopes, Asgari explained. The title reflects his belief that 'we need small things in our lives to keep going.
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A bit of light accompanies an Iranian doctor who is determined to commit suicide, frustrated by the repression of his country. Only that life persists in small gestures. We talked to the filmmaker.
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Venice (Italy), Sep 11 (EFE).- «The cinema is a very strong instrument of resistance». Iranian director Ali Asgari released his film ‘A Bit of Light’ this Friday at the Venice Festival, with which he sends a message of hope in the face of the problems in his country, from oppression, crisis and [...] The entry Iranian Ali Asgari in the Mostra: «The cinema is a very strong medium of resistance» was first published in HolaNews.
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Quotidiano NazionaleVenice, 11 Sep. (askanews) - Iranian director Ali Asgari presented at the 83rd Venice Film Festival "A Little Light" (A Bit of Light), in Competition. The film, in the halls since October 1, is his sixth feature film and has been shot in particularly difficult circumstances, with the beginning of the war and the continuous threat of the bombings in Iran. He tells of a doctor who is arrested and, after seeing his surgery close, loses confidence i…
On Friday afternoon, Ali Asgari was the penultimate contender of the Lion gold of the 83rd Mostra del Cinéma, with the portrait of a former doctor saying goodbye to his relatives... ...
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