CANNES – About 20 minutes after the global press left Thierry Frémaux‘s press conference, they received a news release that Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof had left his country without permission following confirmation of an eight-year prison sentence.
Rasoulof’s latest movie, “The Seed of A Sacred Pig,” is in competition at Cannes this year. Less than an hour before this news broke, Frémaux repeated numerous times that he hoped for a festival “without polemics” (essentially, political speech).
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