Holy Spider

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'Holy Spider' Star Zar Amir Ebrahimi To Direct 'Honor of Persia' (Variety)

“It has been years and years that I am writing. It's about my last year in Iran,” she told Variety at Sweden's Göteborg Film Festival where she has served as ...

The least I can do is to say their names.” They didn’t expect this award in Cannes, they didn’t expect ‘Holy Spider’ to be a good movie. This is the biggest question I have for myself right now. That’s the kind of cinema I like.” It’s just a matter of time,” she says. I think I got confused at one point.” “First of all, it’s not only me – the whole diaspora is very involved in it. I want it to be confusing, surreal. “The Q&As were mostly about the situation in Iran, which was good at the beginning, but no one was asking us about our artistic choices. It will be present in the film, and then I will also perform [double duty] on set. But she is ready to come back to these difficult moments, she says. It’s about my last year in Iran,” she told Variety at Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival where she has served as head of its Nordic Competition jury.

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