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Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof on fleeing Iran after making a movie in secret

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof on fleeing Iran after making a movie in secret

Update: 2024-09-19
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In this arts24 episode, we talk to fugitive director Mohammad Rasoulof about his powerful Iranian film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, a brazen and startling picture about the misogyny and theocracy in his country. The director had to flee Iran where he was sentenced to prison for his filmmaking. The movie won a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May where it premiered. French culture editor Louise Dupont sat down with him in Paris.

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Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof on fleeing Iran after making a movie in secret

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof on fleeing Iran after making a movie in secret

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