Courage along with Financial Capability
by Lukas Müller
In the autumn of 2018, I was invited to Germany for the private screening of Paradise at the invitation of Nurfilm, a small film company in Berlin. This film was apparently made with the help of and in cooperation with Nurfilm in Germany.The director of this film is Ali Atshani from whom I had never seen any film before. I was surprised after I watched it and talked to Norik Keshishian, the CEO of Nurfilm and Mehdi Mansouri, one of the producers of this film (I think he funded the film) and I was even more surprised.Since I travel to Iran for attending the Fajr International Film Festival every year and I am completely familiar with the atmosphere of this country and its cinema, I was very surprised to see this film was made in Iran and I was wondering about the person w...





