Iranian filmmaker flees to Europe after prison sentence ahead of his Cannes premiere • FRANCE 24
it’s with these images of snow covered mountains that Fame director Muhammad rasula announced that he’d fled Iran in a post on social media he said he’d had to make the decision quickly and take the dangerous clandestine journey into Exile Iranian authorities had sentenced him to 8 years in prison from today I reside in cultural Iran a boundless land built by millions of Iranians with an ancient history and culture in every corner of the world they eagerly await to bury you and your regime of darkness in the depths of History then like a phoenix new life will begin from that soil with the dissident growing International Acclaim Iranian authorities have long been putting pressure on the director and his teams in 2017 his film a man of integrity won the can film festival’s prize it condemned corruption in Iran roff’s passport was then taken away it’s his daughter who had to step in except the Golden Bear in 2020 for his film there is no evil which denounces capital punishment but such attempts to silence the 54 year-old including prison terms they’ve been met with courage and determination they do not have the right to keep me from Making art or to create situations where I cannot film I will do my best to exercise my human rights this is what I’ve been doing and will continue to do now in Exile in Europe rosof is not alone many of the actors and technicians he’s worked with have also fled fearing for their lives their latest film The Seed of the Sacred fig will be presented at the 77th K Film Festival
After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film. Story by Olivier Faissolle and Solange Mougin.
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5 comments
Iranian gov't did the same with khomeini back in the days… everything is normal.
Perhaps he had friends in Hollywood too.
Iran is bleeding talents only because Mullas don't understand art, culture, music, and, above all, making peace with anyone with a different opinion.
Iranian regime behind all the criminals and terrorists in the middle east
If you lived in any other country, the government would be extremely proud of you, but in Iran they wanted to put you in jail !!! Creepy world