Berlinale unspools Panahi film

"This Isn't a movieInchGermany -- The Berlin Film Festival continues its support of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who's facing six years imprisonment following a Tehran appeals court upheld the sentence earlier this year. Inside a further show of solidarity with Panahi along with other jailed filmmakers, the Berlinale is joining the German Film Academy and Berlin public radio station Radioeins to recognition Panahi having a screening of his latest film, "This Isn't a movie,Inch on November. 9 in the KulturBrauerei in Berlin as "a kind of public protest and recognition for that courage of those Iranian filmmakers who continue their work despite constant danger." Co-directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb -- who had been arrested in September -- the film shows each day within the existence of Panahi because he waits for several weeks under house arrest for that results of his appeal, eating breakfast, contacting his lawyer, talking using the building's maintenance guy as well as enacting roles of the planned film he continues to be prohibited from making. "'This Isn't a Film' may be the defiance of the director who cannot desist from making films and is definitely the atrociousness to be banned from his profession with no self-pity whatsoever," the Berlinale stated. "Convicting artists and banning them using their professions violates human privileges, freedom of opinion and expression within the arts," added Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick. "We dramatically condemn such infringements and wish to demonstrate our solidarity with this particular screening." In September, Mirtahmasb and fellow Iranian filmmakers and stars Katayoon Shahabi, Hadi Afarideh, Naser Safarian, Shahnam Bazdar and Mohsen Shahrnazdar were also arrested included in the Tehran government's draconian attack on experts from the Islamic regime. In December 2010 Panahi and fellow director Mohammad Rasoulof were billed with distributing "propaganda from the system," and sentenced to 6 years imprisonment and banned from making films and travelling for the following two decades. Only at that year's Berlinale the fest expressed its support, calling focus on the plight of Panahi, along with other Iranian filmmakers with numerous initiatives. Additionally, it asked Panahi for everyone around the Berlinale's worldwide jury -- something the director was not able to complete because of his arrest. Moved by his plight, the German Film Academy has released the project "Filmmakers imprisonmentInch to aid politically persecuted filmmakers. Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com