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Politics pierces "Persepolis" premiere plans

Written by Kong Rithdee

Tuesday, 26 June 2007

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Astral

BANGKOK -- The Bangkok International Film Festival has dropped the Cannes prize-winning animated movie "Persepolis" which had been skedded as new-look Thai fest's opening movie. Tuesday move followed a request from the Iranian Embassy in Bangkok.

“We have had a request from the ambassador to reconsider the screening of 'Persepolis,' and since this could be a matter of international relations, we decided not to show the film,” Chattan Kunjara Na Ayutthaya of Tourism Authority of Thailand, said.

Variety.com

Edited by astral

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