This is not the way the Islamic Republic of Iran usually treats its filmmakers, and a timely corrective is now at hand in the form of a 75-minute film, provocatively titled "This Is Not a Film, " that depicts the dismaying plight of the writer-director Jafar Panahi.

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Kluge also starred in a 1969 film titled The Nine Ages of Nakedness.

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The film, titled Grace of Monaco, is due for release next year.

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Titled Rosewater, the film tells the true story of a journalist imprisoned in Iran after appearing in a sketch on The Daily Show.

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However the film, titled Landscape of Lives, was never made and the only footage shot was seven minutes deemed to be of "completely unusable quality", filmed in a flat.

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The film, titled W.E, began shooting on Monday.

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The most recent exhibition was a film project by David Cotterrell, titled Slipstream.

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Dreamworks took over the project - originally titled Crood Awakening - when Aardman's five-film deal was curtailed after just two productions with the US studio.

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