As he gently took part in a talk with the audience after his film was screened, I was about to ask Vahid Vakilifar, screenwriter and first-time director of Iranian film Gesher on his opinion on the difficult relations of Iranian filmmakers with their government, specially after Ahmadineyad is portrayed in the film while announcing the "pious, young Iranian scientists" having made it towards uranium centrifugation.
After listening it took him and his team three days to get to San Sebastian Film Festival "through all possible transportation means except maybe a camel" I thought it twice and decided not to be rude on a first-timer who politely explained technical challenges for video-shooting his independent film at the highly-surveilled PSEEZ petrochemical industry location (Asaluyeh, southern Iran). But I will indeed ask him if I meet him along remaining days at the venue.
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