MOVIE BY SCORSESE + GHOBADI : THE CONFLICT BETWEEN IRAN AND KURDS
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Cinema Center – In day three of THR’s Busan Film Festival daily, Martin Scorsese reteams with Iranian director Bahaman Ghobadi. SET IN NEW YORK and Iran, a script for the film, which will be about “the conflict between Iranians and Kurds,” Ghobadi says, is being worked on now. Ghobadi will be scouting locations in the Kurdish regions of southern Turkey to stand in for Iran. Scorcese is executive producer of the film; the two previously worked together on Rhino Season, which is screened as a gala presentation at the BIFF.