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Cinema: release of "Les Nuits de Mashad", rewarded at Cannes, but denounced by the Iranian authorities

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Scene from the film "Nights of Mashad", by Ali Abbasi.

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By: Elisabeth Lequeret Follow

On Wednesday July 13 comes the release of

Nights of Mashhad

, by Danish filmmaker of Iranian origin Ali Abbasi.

Its main actress, Zar Amir Ebrahimi received the prize for female interpretation at the Cannes Film Festival.

In the film, she plays a pugnacious journalist, who tries to identify a murderer of prostitutes.

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