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DIRECTOR QUITS CITY FEST AMID IRAN FLAP
NYPOST: A Finnish filmmaker has canceled his visit to the New York Film Festival to protest the State Department's refusal to grant a visa to an Iranian director. Aki Kaurasmaki said in an e-mail released yesterday he will not appear for the screening of his comedy "The Man Without a Past," because if the "U.S. does not want an Iranian, they will hardly have any use for a Finn either. We do not even have oil." Officials turned down Abbas Kiarostami's application, saying they needed to investigate his background.
Kiarostami is much luckier than his colleague, Jafar Panahi. Last year, Jafar Panahi- director of “the circle”- was arrested in New York airport. He was kept in custody for 48 hours and then deported to Iran.

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