TEHRAN -- The political documentary “The 9/11 Black Box” by Iranian director Mohammadreza Eslamlu will go on screen at the 29th Fajr International Film Festival.

“We reveal a big secret in the film which never has been heard by audiences and this is the most valuable factor in a documentary,” Eslamlu told the Persian service of Fars News Agency.
The film’s title obviously refers to the term ‘9/11 black box’, which has frequently been used by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his speech at the UN headquarters in New York last September.
“After watching the documentary, the audience is assured that 9/11 is a political plot by U.S. government,” Eslamlu added.
“The film is about a committed Iranian documentarian named Mohammad who has an apocalyptic view toward contemporary events that are happening in the world,” Eslamlu said.
Accompanied by the French journalist and political activist Thierry Meyssan, Mohammad tries to make a documentary according to Meyssan’s research on 9/11, he added.
“Meyssan comes from Lebanon to Iran since, in his view, Iran is the only country in the world that aims to reveal the truth and he cannot find facilities for his research in other parts of world,” Eslamlu asserts.
The French journalist and political activist Theirry Meyssan is best known for his controversial book “9/11: The Big Lie” which was published in 2002 and has been translated into 28 languages.
In the book, Meyssan conducts a survey on the abuse of the United States’ political system and on the founding act of Bush’s regime: the September 11th, 2001 attacks. The author questions, at the outset, the official US version of the events.
A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Eslamlu, 63, is a close friend of Deputy Culture Minister for Cinematic Affairs Javad Shamaqdari.
He had been assigned by Shamaqdari to accompany American cineaste Michelle Nickelson in “We the People of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, a documentary about the June 2009 presidential election in Iran.
However, the documentary was never made because of post-election unrest in Iran.
Eslamlu’s other credits include “Seyyed’s Garden” and “Over Faw”, both about the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
Photo: Iranian filmmaker Mohammadreza Eslamlu (L) and French journalist and political activist Thierry Meyssan in a scene from “The 9/11 Black Box”