According to Stop Fundamentalism (via) the Iranian authorities have sent a letter of protest to the French Embassy in Tehran complaining that the Cannes Film Festival had the temerity to screen… an Iranian film.

The animated drama Persepolis is based on a comic by Marjane Satrapi and tells the coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.

The letter sent by the state-run Farabi Foundation in Iran reads, “This year the Cannes Film Festival, in an unconventional and unsuitable act, has chosen a movie about Iran that has presented an unrealistic face of the achievements and results of the glorious Islamic Revolution in some of its parts.”

The film is in competition for the Palme d’Or and due to be screened on Wednesday.

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