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Iran’s Farhad Delaram, Whose ‘Achilles’ Launches in Toronto, ‘Hopes We Are Going to See Big Changes’ Prompted by Mahsa Amini Protests
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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Iranian director Farhad Delaram was in the midst of shooting his subversive road movie “Achilles” when Mahsa Amini died in Tehran on Sept. 16, 2022, while being detained for allegedly violating the country’s hijab law that mandates covered hair. Amini’s death triggered months of nationwide demonstrations and riots under the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom.” The ongoing protests mark the most serious challenge to the country’s regime since the Islamic Republic was founded in 1979.
The fallout from Amini’s death came crashing onto the Iranian set of “Achilles,” in which a former filmmaker turned medic nicknamed Achilles decides to help a female political prisoner named Hedieh escape from a psych ward. Due to the nationwide protests “Everyone on set was having trouble concentrating,” Delaram recounts. Roughly a year later, the director is in Toronto launching his timely drama that will now segue to San Sebastian and other European fests.
Visit Films is selling “Achilles” internationally. On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Amini’s death, Delaram spoke to Variety about his hopes that his indictment of Iran’s political system can make an impact. You started shooting “Achilles” a few weeks before the death of Mahsa Amini, which certainly ties in with your film. Simply put: What is its genesis? We started pre-production four months before Mahsa Amini’s death, and we were in the middle of shooting when they killed her.
But the genesis of the script goes back to several years before. I was working in a hospital on a night shift when I was a student and there was a woman there who was a political prisoner. They brought her in just to examine or cure something.
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