Jamil Rostami Articles

Iranian director Jamil Rostami, whose Iranian-Iraqi Requiem of Snow recently became Iraq's first film to be submitted for a best foreign-language film Academy Award, has withdrawn his coming-of-age drama from the Danish capital's Buster-Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth as a protest against the publication of cartoons portraying Islam's prophet Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. "I planned to participate in the festival [...]