Iran asks Albanian school to ban anti-Iranian film

[IR.IRAN]

TEHRAN, April 4 (MNA) -- Iran�s embassy in Belgrade requested the Marubi Film and Multimedia School in Tirana to ban screening the anti-Iranian animation film �Persepolis�.
The Marubi Film and Multimedia School is scheduled to screen the film animation during its spring screening program.



Iran�s ambassador to Albania Ali Eqbali in a meeting with Marubi director Kujtim Cashku called �Persepolis� an anti-cultural and anti-Iranian production.



He put stress on paying respect to all the cultures and civilizations in the world and noted that the screening of the animation is incompatible with the old relationship and friendship between the two nations.



Iran�s request for banning the animation was published in several dailies in Belgrade including the newspaper Shekulli.



The animation film, which is widely viewed as an anti-Iranian film in Iran, was directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Paris-based Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi.



The film, which is about an Iranian girl growing up during the final days of the last shah and the early days of the Islamic Republic, paints an unrealistically bleak image of Iran.



The film is an adaptation of Satrapi�s autobiographical black and white graphic novel �Persepolis�.

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[Apolonia2, his request..]

TEHRAN, April 4 (MNA) -- Iran�s embassy in Belgrade requested the Marubi Film and Multimedia School in Tirana to ban screening the anti-Iranian animation film �Persepolis�.
The Marubi Film and Multimedia School is scheduled to screen the film animation during its spring screening program.



Iran�s ambassador to Albania Ali Eqbali in a meeting with Marubi director Kujtim Cashku called �Persepolis� an anti-cultural and anti-Iranian production.



He put stress on paying respect to all the cultures and civilizations in the world and noted that the screening of the animation is incompatible with the old relationship and friendship between the two nations.



Iran�s request for banning the animation was published in several dailies in Belgrade including the newspaper Shekulli.



The animation film, which is widely viewed as an anti-Iranian film in Iran, was directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Paris-based Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi.



The film, which is about an Iranian girl growing up during the final days of the last shah and the early days of the Islamic Republic, paints an unrealistically bleak image of Iran.



The film is an adaptation of Satrapi�s autobiographical black and white graphic novel �Persepolis�.

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=659512

And why should we ban it?? We are a democracy and we support freedom of speech.

I hope they don't ban it as it is a victory for backwardness.

[Kosovo Knight]

I didn't know that Iran doesn't have embassy in Albania. And what is Shekulli newspaper? I think that its Albanian newspaper from Tirana, but they said that its from Belgrade. (?)

[IR.IRAN]

And why should we ban it?? We are a democracy and we support freedom of speech.

I hope they don't ban it as it is a victory for backwardness.

a victory for backwardness would be feeding the population with false information.

[Apolonia2, his request..]

a victory for backwardness would be feeding the population with false information.

It's a movie........it's not an official statement by the UN


There are plenty of movies that show Albania in a bad way, we don't go around asking people to ban them.

[IR.IRAN]

It's a movie........it's not an official statement by the UN


There are plenty of movies that show Albania in a bad way, we don't go around asking people to ban them.

i havnt seen a movie being aired nationally that damages albania's image.

plus, we are different, we take our culture,history and country seriously.

[Apolonia2, his request..]

i havnt seen a movie being aired nationally that damages albania's image.

plus, we are different, we take our culture,history and country seriously.

try Raffik(similar to Borat, hasn't been aired yet)

Lamerica(shows Albanians during the fall of communism and incites propaganda)'

and plenty others......

We Albanians take our culture and image very seriously. We are the most patriotic peoples in Europe. But you have to understand that movies are movies....they are not real life. Get over it.

[IR.IRAN]

try Raffik(similar to Borat, hasn't been aired yet)

Lamerica(shows Albanians during the fall of communism and incites propaganda)'

and plenty others......

We Albanians take our culture and image very seriously. We are the most patriotic peoples in Europe. But you have to understand that movies are movies....they are not real life. Get over it.

havnt seen them.

real life or not, i very much doubt that we will "get over it". this is how we are, like it or not.

[Noor]

try Raffik(similar to Borat, hasn't been aired yet)

Lamerica(shows Albanians during the fall of communism and incites propaganda)'

and plenty others......

We Albanians take our culture and image very seriously. We are the most patriotic peoples in Europe. But you have to understand that movies are movies....they are not real life. Get over it.

I thought you might have already taken notice that we don't get over these certain movies that easily from all the 300 discussions we have had here....

[Apolonia2, his request..]

I thought you might have already taken notice that we don't get over these certain movies that easily from all the 300 discussions we have had here....

Well, blame the directors.