Mansour Jahani in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: Airstrikes have directly hit the Iranian cinema industry’s infrastructure

Inside Iran, Jahani says he sees no indication that the conflict is driving internal political change. “Regardless of their dissatisfaction [with the regime], the Iranian people [have] not welcomed foreign intervention as an opportunity to overthrow the government in their country,” he says. “Wars have always united the Iranian people.”

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Majidi’s Sun Children to present Iran at 2021 Oscars

According to the delegation of the representative of Iranian cinema to the Oscar ceremony, “War drama “Walnut Tree” and the child labor movie “Sun Children” along with “Yalda: A Night for Forgiveness” and “Careless Crime” were among the movies competing to represent Iran during the 93rd Academy Awards in the best foreign-language film category.

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