Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who won best actress at Cannes for her performance in Ali Abassi’s “Holy Spider” is set to head the jury of the Nordic competition at the Göteborg Film Festival.Ebrahimi is a celebrated Iranian actor, director, producer and casting director.
Her credits include “Bride Price vs.
Democracy,” “Teheran Tabu” and Noora Niasari’s film “Shayda” which is set to compete at Sundance.
She currently stars in “White Paradise,” a contemporary western directed by Guillaume Renusson which just came out in France.Ebrahimi will be joined on the jury by actress Sofie Gråbøl, director Antonio Lukich and composer Matti Bye.“I am incredibly proud to be leading a jury of these impressive artists so that we may not only amplify the stellar work in the festival, but to also draw attention to the atrocities happening every day around us,” said Ebrahimi.The actor fled from the Iranian
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