GOLDEN APRICOT Demands to Release Jafar Panahi

The administration of the Armenian annual film festival GOLDEN APRICOT joined a petition demanding the release of the Iranian film director Jafar Panahi’s release.

“The entire staff of GOLDEN APRICOT IFF, being convinced that imprisonment of Jafar Panahi, the humanitarian interpreter of Iranian cinema, is unfair; joins this initiative and signs this petition demanding his and his colleagues release from the prison.

“Armenian spectators had a chance to explore the problems of women in the present Iranian reality in 2007, when Jafar Panahi's film "Offside" was shown within the framework of the 4th GOLDEN APRICOT IFF. Jafar Panahi deserves the right to be heard and must be given the freedom to create,” reads the petition.