DIRECTOR OF IRANIAN ORIGIN WAS FINALLY RELEASED FROM PRISON

Keywan Karimi a profession as Director and pemenangkan several awards who was sentenced to one year imprisonment due to his work finally officially released after languishing for five months. It was thanks to the insistence of the International asked him to immediately released from all claims.

But after Karimi, dirinnya do not know whether to make the film more in the Islamic Republic. He told the news agency the Associated Press (AP) on Sunday April 30, 2017 himself praised the international pressure over the early liberation, and regardless of the 223 lashes that are part of the punishment.

But the other thing that is forgotten is still many practitioners of movies that remain imprisoned in Iran as part of a hard-line actions amid the efforts of President Hassan Rouhani embrace the wider world through nuclear deal.

Reported by VOA Indonesia, Tuesday (2/5/2017), Karimi said in an interview via Skype that he underwent the punishment in the Evin prison of Tehran, hold political prisoners and prisoners of the nation. The first two months he spent in isolation cells, the place he called "very dirty, very cool."

While in prison, he claims to suffer from pain in the stomach and legs, but eventually recovered. Later he was put in prison, sharing a common room with 20 other prisoners.

"You are far from freedom, away from something you love," called Karimi.

Karimi convicted because it is considered insulting the sanctity in Iran, which his Government was overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The case related video clips and directed a film titled Writing on the City which focuses on political graffiti in Iran starting from the Islamic revolution of 1979 until the disputed 2009 election.

Karimi was known by international critics to a minimalist black and white film in 2013, entitled The Adventure of the Married Couple. A short film based on a story by the author Italo Calvino Italy follows the routine of a husband and wife have different work schedules, his wife works at a factory of the bottles and the husband in a statue of the human body.

In the story, the two are not speaking, the only sound in the film it is the buzz of the city where they live. The results of his work, the film was screened in film festivals and won awards in Spain and Colombia.

Karimi was one of several artists, poets, journalists, models and activists who were arrested in pemberangusan a freedom of speech by the hardliners who oppose Rouhani.

His release was done ahead of the presidential election of Iran in may, in which Rouhani seeks re-election.

For now, Karimi says a grateful are out of prison, even though he felt alienated from Iran and its people. "I want to continue making films, but I don't know how and where in the country," said Karimi.