Kayhan newspaper: Abdolreza Kahani is begging; these people are no longer making films.
Kayhan wrote that a group of former filmmakers who, despite emigrating and residing abroad, have failed in their work and have set up a new form of begging for themselves.
Interestingly and humorously, these individuals, who do not even number as many as the fingers on two hands, have named this gathering the ‘Association of Independent Iranian Filmmakers.’ This is while most of them have not made films for years since emigrating from Iran.
Most of these individuals are even unfamiliar to professional cinema enthusiasts, and some, like Abdolreza Kahani, emigrated after making a few weak and unpopular films, hoping to achieve success, but mostly faced failure.