Iranian ‘Ballad Of A White Cow’ Directors Behtash Sanaeeha & Maryam Moghadam Banned From Travel As They Face Trial Over New Film
deadline.comIranian directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam, whose last collaboration Ballad Of A White Cow made waves on the festival circuit, have been banned from travel and face a trial in relation to their upcoming film My Favourite Cake.
The pair discovered they were subject to a travel ban at Tehran airport at the end of September after their passports were confiscated as they went to catch a flight to Paris to work on post-production of the new film.
They were subsequently told that they faced a trial related to the production. Local media reported that Iranian security forces had raided the house of the film’s editor, seizing rushes and other materials related to the production.
The country’s hard-line Islamist authorities are believed to have been angered by the work, which according to the official logline, revolves around the “life behind closed doors of an aging woman who dares to live her desires in a country where women’s rights are heavily restricted”.
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