But his emotions didn’t flow, as many assumed, from possibly walking a red carpet into the Academy Awards to bring a statuette back home to Canada. “A lot of people thought it’s because, ‘oh, you’ve been selected.’ ‘No,’ I told them. The emotion is because now (Canada) is home,” Khatami tells The Hollywood Reporter.
For an itinerant director who left his native Iran in his youth to make films around the world — including in France Chile, Malaysia, Taiwan, Lithuania — and believing each country was his home while there, being suddenly picked to fly the flag for Canada is a game changer. “Now I’m representing an entire industry here. You can’t say ‘goodbye.
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