French-Iranian “The Anti-Semite” coming to Fajr film festival

TEHRAN,Jan.3(MNA) -- “The Anti-Semite”, a French-Iranian joint production, will go on screen at the 30th Fajr International Film Festival. French Holocaust skeptic director Dieudonné M’bala M’bala helmed the project “The Anti-Semite” and was accompanied by Iranian producer Mohsen Ali-Akbari. The film will go on screen at the conference on Hollywoodism and Cinema which will be held on the sidelines of the festival, Ali-Akbari told . He said that the film will be ready for screening at the festival after Hossein Zandbaf edits it. The film, which features an all-French cast, is in French with Persian subtitles that will be ready for the festival, he said. Les productions de la Plume, a French company belonging to Dieudonné and Iran’s Haft Aseman Cinematic Company have teamed up to make film, which is an adaptation of a play written by Dieudonné. Preliminary talks on this movie were held among Dieudonné’s company, the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and the Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) during Dieudonné’s visit to Tehran in November 2009.