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

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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.

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

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