The filmmaker, currently living in Berlin, received the inaugural Locarno City of Peace Award during the Locarno Film Festival: "What really concerns me at the moment is how I can stand up to this ...
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, whose “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was Oscar nominated, is considering making a film in another language. “If I’d want to make a film in Europe right now, or in the ...
Faced with eight years’ jail, flogging and seizure of property for previous offences having only recently left prison, and with Sacred Fig’s themes sure to increase his sentence, Rasoulof was forced ...
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Iranian dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil, The Seed of the Sacred Fig) had to flee his home country to evade an eight-year prison sentence last year. But in an interview with THR ...