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I don’t think I’ve left my restrictions behind, says Mohammad Rasoulof

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been one of the leading newsmakers this year with his 28-day flight to freedom from his country hitting the headlines the world over. He escaped to Germany in May after being sentenced in Iran to eight years in prison, flogging, fine and confiscation of property following the selection of his latest film, The Seed of …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Inside the Los Angeles film critics vote that gave ‘Anora’ best picture

LA Times

The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Those included Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-honored “Anora,” which took the award for best picture and saw two of its actors cited: Mikey Madison and Yura Borisov. GLENN WHIPP: Josh, when you asked me to create a file for this story before the weekend, I put a placeholder headline atop it: “Los Angeles Film Critics …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s definition of home is shifting

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Shortly before he was to be flogged and imprisoned for eight years, Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran. A week after arriving in Germany, Rasoulof would premiere his film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print “The Seed of the …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome on the ‘healing’ experience of making ‘Unstoppable’

LA Times

In the latest episode of The Envelope video podcast, Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome discuss their inspirational sports movie, “Unstoppable,” and exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof recounts the harrowing experience making “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Kelvin Washington: Hello and welcome to another episode of “The Envelope.” I’m Kelvin Washington, joined by a couple of folks you know. She …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Inside Mohammad Rasoulof’s harrowing escape from Iran for ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’

LA Times

“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 …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

The timely relevance of Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider,’ plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

LA Times

Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. It’s pretty stressful, I will say.” Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider’ and ‘Heat’ Diane Venora, left, and Al Pacino in the movie “Heat.” The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. … When you’re on top of a tall building in L.A. at 11 o’clock or midnight …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

To attend his Cannes premiere, he fled an Iranian prison sentence. The film is worth it

LA Times

About a half an hour before the start of my conversation with exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, he gets tragic news from his home country. “In the last 15 years I’ve had very much to do with interrogators, the censors, the judicial system and the security apparatus of Iran,” Rasoulof says. “But as I got closer to the end of …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Review: A tense household becomes a metaphor for Iran’s divisions in ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’

LA Times

Reality seeps into “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in multiple ways, including ones that writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof couldn’t have imagined back when he shot this absorbing drama in secret. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was inspired by one such jail stint in 2022, which occurred during the same time as that summer’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, sparked by …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Payal Kapadia to Mohammed Rasoulof, checkout Cannes Film Festival 2024 award winners

India TV News

The last day of the 77th Cannes Film Festival came as a bliss for India. The list of Cannes 2024 awards winners is as follows: Palme d'Or- Anora Director: Shawn Baker Grand Prix - All We Imagine as Light Director: Payal Kapadia Jury Award Emilia Perez Best Director Miguel Gomes, Grand Tour Special Award Mohammed Rasoulof for The Seed of …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor

Associated Press

Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. The win Saturday for “Anora” marked a coronation for Baker, the 53-year-old indie filmmaker of “The Florida Project " who used iPhones to make his 2015 film “Tangerine.” …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

'Anora' wins Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival

NPR

'Anora' wins Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival toggle caption Andreea Alexandru/Invision/AP The 77th Cannes Film Festival drew to a close on Saturday at the French Riviera city's Grand Théâtre Lumière, with Anora snatching the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. Award winners Honors also went to Miguel Gomes, who won the best director award for Grand Tour; …

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7 months ago

Cannes 2024: Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig gives The Sound of Music deja vu

Hindustan Times

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. …

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7 months ago

‘I can’t believe I’m standing here’: Escaped Iran director Mohammad Rasoulof arrives in Cannes

The Hindu

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 …

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Amid exile, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof premieres film at Cannes

NPR

Amid exile, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof premieres film at Cannes Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, premiered at Cannes Film Festival. But as NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports, he was at the Cannes Film Festival today for the premiere of his latest movie. MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: Mohammad Rasoulof enjoyed a long, rapturous standing …

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7 months ago

Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran to debut his film in Cannes. ‘I have many more stories to tell,’ he says

Associated Press

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 …

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Cannes 2024: ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ director Mohammad Rasoulof to attend premiere after fleeing Iran to escape harsh sentencing

The Hindu

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 …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Iranian filmmaker flees to Europe after prison sentence ahead of his Cannes premiere

Associated Press

CANNES, France — 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. Rasoulof said the prison sentence came before he revealed his latest film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” That film premieres in competition in Cannes on …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Award-winning director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to prison in Iran ahead of Cannes

Associated Press

The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer told The Associated Press Thursday. “This judgment is issued due to Mr. Rasoulof signing statements in support of the Iranian people,” his lawyer Babak Paknia told the AP. Shortly after receiving …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging

The Hindu

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been handed an eight-year prison sentence, as reported by his lawyer. In a statement on X, Rasoulof's lawyer Babak Paknia detailed that Iran's Islamic Revolution Court imposed an eight-year prison term on Rasoulof, along with flogging, a fine, and property confiscation. The development follows Iranian authorities placing significant pressure on Rasoulof to withdraw his latest …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to prison, lashings in Iran ahead of Cannes trip

LA Times

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, shown in 2013 in Cannes, has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the 2024 film festival in the south of France. The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof banned from attending Cannes Film Festival 2024; here's everything you need to know

Hindustan Times

In what seems like an annual ritual, dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been banned by Teheran from attending the Cannes Film Festival, where his latest work, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, is vying for the top Palme d'Or. Mohammed prohibited from attending Cannes 2024 Iran's decision came on Thursday, and it has been regularly imposing such harsh and …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Iran arrests 3rd outspoken filmmaker in escalating crackdown

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has arrested an internationally renowned filmmaker, several newspapers reported Tuesday, the third Iranian director to be locked up in less than a week as the government escalates a crackdown on the country’s celebrated cinema industry. Panahi has won multiple festival awards, including the 2015 Berlin Golden Bear for “Taxi,” a wide-ranging meditation on poverty, …

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I don’t think I’ve left my restrictions behind, says Mohammad Rasoulof

Inside the Los Angeles film critics vote that gave ‘Anora’ best picture

Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s definition of home is shifting

Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome on the ‘healing’ experience of making ‘Unstoppable’

Inside Mohammad Rasoulof’s harrowing escape from Iran for ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’

The timely relevance of Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider,’ plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

To attend his Cannes premiere, he fled an Iranian prison sentence. The film is worth it

Review: A tense household becomes a metaphor for Iran’s divisions in ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’

Payal Kapadia to Mohammed Rasoulof, checkout Cannes Film Festival 2024 award winners

Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor

'Anora' wins Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival

Cannes 2024: Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig gives The Sound of Music deja vu

‘I can’t believe I’m standing here’: Escaped Iran director Mohammad Rasoulof arrives in Cannes

Amid exile, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof premieres film at Cannes

Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran to debut his film in Cannes. ‘I have many more stories to tell,’ he says

Cannes 2024: ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ director Mohammad Rasoulof to attend premiere after fleeing Iran to escape harsh sentencing

Iranian filmmaker flees to Europe after prison sentence ahead of his Cannes premiere

Award-winning director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to prison in Iran ahead of Cannes

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to prison, lashings in Iran ahead of Cannes trip

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof banned from attending Cannes Film Festival 2024; here's everything you need to know

Iran arrests 3rd outspoken filmmaker in escalating crackdown