Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulov, who in May 2024 escaped from Iran to Europe after receiving a jail sentence from the country’s authorities for making his drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has issued a strong statement underlining the significance of fellow dissident auteur Jafar Panahi scooping the Cannes Palme d’Or on Saturday for his revenge drama “It Was Just an Accident.”
“This victory is an unexpected and powerful blow to the machinery of repression in the Islamic Republic,” Rasoulov, who lives in Germany, said in a joint statement made on Sunday with producers Kaveh Farnam and Farzad Pak of the Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA).
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