“The process of leaving Iran was, in fact, quite harrowing, and it was very, very scary, especially the mountainous road that I had to take,” says Mohammad Rasoulof, director of “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Mohammad Rasoulof made it to the Cannes premiere of his film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” but only after a perilous escape from …
Iranian rebel director Mohammad Rasoulof made a great escape from his homeland days before his movie, The Seed of the Scared Fig, was to play at the prestigious competition slot in the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. Director Mohammad Rasoulof poses for a portrait photograph for the film The Seed of the Sacred Fig at the 77th international film festival, Cannes. …
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof arrived at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday after his dramatic escape from his homeland after being sentenced to eight years in prison. "I can't believe I'm standing here," AFP journalists heard him telling officials in the Palais des Festivals, where the world's biggest film festival is being held. But on the eve of the festival …
Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison — and likely more considering the uncompromising nature of his latest film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” — when he decided to flee Iran. “I have many more stories to tell, many more narratives to create and films to make,” said Rasoulof, speaking Thursday through an interpreter at Cannes’ Palais des …
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof will make a defiant appearance at the Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. His escape follows the Islamic Revolutionary Court’s harsh sentencing and subsequent pressure on him to withdraw The Seed of the Sacred Fig from Cannes. The Seed of the Sacred Fig will be …
