Etiket: Mashhad
[Critique] “The nights of Mashhad”: serial feminicides against the backdrop of the Iranian regime
In the city of Mashhad, Iran, between 2000 and 2001, a seemingly uneventful mason murdered 16 prostitutes. These feminicides were in his eyes only a legitimate means of purging the…
“The Nights of Mashhad”, an Iranian political and militant thriller inspired by a true story
Third film by Swedish-Dano-Iranian Ali Abbasi, Nights of Mashhad deals with a serial-killer case in Iran, at the crossroads of religion and politics. If the film has a detective plot,…
Iran denounces the selection at Cannes of the film “The Nights of Mashhad”, a “political” choice according to Tehran
Tehran protested to Paris against the selection of this Iranian film which tells the story of a serial killer of prostitutes and for which the actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi received…