Mohammad Rasoulof Will Attend Cannes Screening Of ‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’
deadline.comDissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof will attend Friday’s Cannes screening of his competition movie The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Rasoulof announced last week that he had left Iran and was staying in what he described as an “undisclosed location in Europe” in a statement shared with the international press.
Rasoulof’s reps confirmed to Deadline that he will attend the screening on Friday. News of Rasoulof’s journey to Europe came a week after his lawyer confirmed that Iranian authorities had handed the filmmaker an eight-year prison sentence for “signing statements and making films and documentaries.” Days after the sentence was announced, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig was handed a competition spot at Cannes.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig is about an investigating judge in Tehran who grapples with paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears.
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