Cannes: Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof honored

Simply escaped, then on the crimson carpet in Cannes and eventually an award winner: The Iranian director, Mohammad Rasoulof, obtained a particular award on the Cannes Movie Pageant for his mysterious movie “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”. His movie tells in regards to the protests in Iran after the dying of a younger Kurdish girl Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022.

Escape on foot over the mountains

The highway to Cannes was actually onerous and difficult for Rasoulof: he needed to go away his nation secretly on foot over the mountains as a result of he was sentenced to eight years in jail and tortured by the regime of the mullahs lately. His property was confiscated, his passport confiscated – and he spent months in jail from 2022 to 2023, solely to be launched early attributable to protests and for well being causes.

The principle award of the competition, the “Golden Palm”, was awarded by the jury led by the director of the U.S. Greta Gerwig (“Barbie”) to the US function movie “Anora” by director Sean Baker. The movie tells the story of a striptease dancer who turns into engaged to the son of a Russian oligarch. Critics referred to as the movie, with actress Mikey Madison, a contemporary model of “Fairly Lady.” Additionally they turned “Star Wars” engineers George Lucasthe appearing icon Meryl Streep and the well-known Japanese anime movie studio Studio Ghibli have obtained prestigious awards – administrators similar to Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Costner and George Miller offered their newest works with “Megalopolis”, “Horizon” and “Furiosa”. DT/sta