This film alongside The movies Wordlessness and Strange Stranger by Daryush Shokof has been mentioned by Shokof to best show a sample of an Amenic Film developed and introdued by him.
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Daryush Shokof introduces Flushers to be an Amenic film which is a style of filmmaking created by himself.
The Suitors, selected for the Cannes in 1988; Manhattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi), selected for Venice and Toronto 1993; Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, selected for Berlin, Toronto and Locarno 1996, and Silence of the Sea, selected for the Mannheim Film Festival 2003.
Daryush Shokof was missing for around 12 days which he said he was kidnapped by four Moslem fanatics who asked him not to show both his two recent films Iran Zendan and Hitler's Grave or else he would be dead.