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>> >> Kaurismaki Boycott's NYFF, In Support of Kiarostami

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>> (indieWIRE: 10.02.02) -- Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki has decided to
>> boycott the current New York Film Festival in support of Iranian
>> filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami who was denied entrance to the United States
>> last month.
>>
>> Kaurismaki, whose Cannes grand jury winner "The Man Without a Past" is
>> screening at the NYFF, announced that he would not attend the festival
>> in protest of Kiarostami's treatment by U.S. officials.
>>
>> Acknowledging that the festival is one of the best in the world, the
>> director maintained his solidarity with Kiarostami. "If the present
>> government of the United States of America does not want an Iranian,
>> they will hardly have any use for a Finn, either," Kaurismaki said
>> in the statement, "We do not even have the oil."
>>
>> "I consider the Geneva Convention as the last hope of mankind, and as a
>> private citizen (of) Finland, I accuse the Government of the United 
>> States
>> of violating it," Kaurismaki said in his statement, "Meanwhile, I would
>> like to invite the present U.S. Secretary of Defense to a visit to
>> Finland. We could take a walk in the woods and pick mushrooms. That
>> might calm him down.
>>
>> Concluding his statement, which was sent to indieWIRE yesterday, 
>> Kaurismaki
>> said, "If international cultural exchange is prevented, what is left?
>> The exchange of arms? Somewhere, someone said that every man is created
>> equal."    [Eugene Hernandez]
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