Pantea Bahram Different Appearance In Fajr Film Festival

"Ever since cinema was adopted as an accepted and state-funded art form, we've been in this paradoxical situation where the Ministry of Culture first promotes films but censors them in the end," said Amin Farzanefar, director of the Visions of Iran film festival in the western German city of Cologne. "Censorship is perceived as inherent to the system, as morally and politically meaningful."