Iran:Persepolis pulled from Bangkok Film Festival

Posted 29 June 2007 10:02 GMT

Countries	Iran, Thailand
Topics	Arts & Culture, Film, Politics, Migration & Immigration

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· Iran, Thaïlande: Le film "Persepolis" de Marjane Satrapi retiré du Festival de Bangkok

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Cityboy informs us that the Bangkok International Film Festival dropped Marjan Satrapi's prize-winning animated movie,Persepolis.The blogger says Iranian embassy in Thailand announced that Festival managers responded positively to a request from the Iranian Embassy in Bangkok.The movie follows Satrapi's life through the 1979 Islamic revolution,war and mass executions.

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