Panahi, whose new film 'No Bears' is screening in competition in Venice, was arrested in Iran last month.
Panahi was the third Iranian filmmaker to be arrested in the country in less than a week, as authorities also locked up Mohammad Rasoulof, director of Berlin Golden Bear winner , and Mostafa Aleahmad , amid a broader crackdown on artists across the country. Panahi was arrested after protesting the arrests of Rasoulof and Aleahmad.
Filmmaking in Iran, Farnam said, “is not a right, it is a privilege. The government gives the privilege to those who make propaganda or present another [positive] image of the country.”
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