The French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in its 757 number published for July-august wrote about women filmmakers and among the 60s woman filmmakers like Marguerite Duras, Paula Delsol, Jackie Raynal, Nelly Kaplan, Sara Gómez, Susan Sontag, Shirley Clarke, Tang Shu-shuen, Lina Wertmüller, Anne Claire Poirier, Vera Chytilová, Márta Mészáros, Ioulia Solntseva, Larissa Chepitko, Kira Mouratova and Lana Gogoberidze they pointed to Forough Farrokhzad with the movie "The House Is Black" and discussed her works and style in half a page and like other filmmakers the evaluated her works.
The well-deserved recognition of this brilliant poet and filmmaker aside the author of the article claims that there is a collection of notes by Forough Farrokhzad and that she was working on a long screenplay and the author also claims that she has written a thousand-page screenplay about a woman's destiny, of course, there is no clear indication in the article that which person or organization is the basis for this claim so it would be difficult to fact check the claims made in the article.
As the Culture Editor of TABNAK news agency I had an interview with Pooran Farrokhzad, anticipating exploitation of her sister's name and fame after Pooran's death I asked her that "is there any written work, short story, collection of articles, screenplay or painting left by Forough that is unknown to public and someone has it and have not made it public?" she stressed that there is no hidden fiction or screenplay or painting by Forough and any work she has done her relatives know about it.
It was important for me to ask this question since in the past there was plenty of similar claims made about famous Iranian artist that their works were on high demand and valuable, very doubtful claims about unpublished works like some unfinished works even mere drafts that later were finished by their relatives or close associates and now were being published or works that were considered fake all together.
nonetheless, when these claims involved family members of the artist the matter never proceeded to the point of discrediting the work but Farrokhzad family didn't attempt to exploit Forough's fame and didn't let others do so, now three years after Pooran's death to claim there was a thousand-page screenplay that Forough's family didn't know anything about it, is absolutely unacceptable and totally false.
*Mr. Khorramdel is Director of Multimedia Office & Culture Editor in TABNAK.com he is a Filmmaker and independent film critic.
