I burst into tears when I saw the Academy Film Festival gave the best foreign language award to an Iranian movie called “A separation.”
I do not know why I cried so much. Maybe because I felt we are really forgotten. No one sees us even in the weather forecast of the International news. The meteorologist usually skips over Iran. Not so many people know us. To my surprise, when I took my Canadian citizenship oath, the citizenship officer asked me where Iran is. “Is it Iraq?”
Moreover, when I show some of my Iranian landscape photos to my Canadian friends, they usually say: “Oh, you do have mountains and trees?! I thought you only have deserts and Iran is arid.” Once, I got angry and said: “Do you think we ride camels too?!”
In addition to that, no one knows how difficult it is to make a movie. You can’t make a movie about every subject you want since some subjects must always be ignored. Now, some directors, actors and actresses are in prison. So, making a movie means that you must be cautious and accept its horrible consequences.
All in all, all these wounds and scars in my heart turned into tears when I heard the name of “Iran” on the Oscar. Finally, someone saw us and we are not forgotten. We are not forgotten as long as we believe we can make a change. Finally, someone believed in his power!
You can watch it here: A Separation wins the Oscar!
An Interview with the director of the movie in English language:
An Interview with the director
Comments
Great news. Congratulations !!!
Thanks for the sharing, Nafis !!
Dear Sandeep, hehehehehe, I wrote this because the winning made me so glad even without seeing the movie. hehehe. I'm glad you liked it and thanks for watching it...you are funny...hehehehe
OMG!! Nafis, you haven't seen the movie and your wrote this. Crap! If I knew this before I would clear the suspense in my previous comment :D Kidding!
Movie was totally flawless and too realistic made and I did watch it because it is Iran based movie, and it helps me to understand about the Iranian culture. I had seen it next day when it won the Oscar :D
Dear Alexandra, thank you so much. It's so nice of you.
Thank you for your blog, dear Nafis! My congratulations with the oskar for that film.
Dear Zulkifli, oh , not at all. I don't think so and sorry for writing that on my blog. I just wanted to show that it bothers me so much when people only believe what they see without doing more research about what they see. Thanks a lot for reading the blog and leaving the comment.
Dear Tara, thanks a million times for reading the blog. It motivates me so much when you read my blog. The director's speech was recognized as the best speech in the Oscar.
Dear Ati, I'm so sorry ,however, I don't agree that we are the best. Thanks a lot for reading the blog and leaving the comment.
Dear Expector, thank you so much. I hope more people know that we are also on the world's map.
Dear Sandeep, most intellectual movies are like that. They are usually open ended which means you can picture the end of the story as you like. Sometimes, I don't like it. I don't know why. But, I'm glad you could watch the movie. I haven't seen it yet. Thanks a lot for reading the blog and your comment.
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