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The 49th edition of the Toronto Film Festival continues to announce more movies, with the festival on Tuesday unveiled its 2024 Centrepiece lineup that features 43 titles from filmmakers representing 41 countries. TIFF runs September 5-15 under its new sponsorship with Rogers. In total, the list…

“If we had to deal with cocaine, it would have been easier,” joked The Seed of the Sacred Fig filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof this AM at a Cannes presser about his entanglement with totalitarian Iranian authorities over his cinema which prompted the filmmaker to flee his homeland from imprisonment…

This afternoon, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof debuted his latest feature, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, in Competition here at the Cannes Film Festival to a nearly 15-minute standing ovation. The fact that the filmmaker was in attendance is especially poignant after he fled his home country…

Woman, life, freedom. Down with theocracy! The slogans shouted in the bloody streets of Tehran over the past year echo through The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof's long, heartfelt story of an Iranian family that starts to tear at the seams when Iman's two daughters are told what he really does…

On Friday Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof will debut his latest feature The Seed of the Sacred Fig in Cannes after fleeing his home country through what he described to Deadline as a "complicated" and "anguishing" journey across Europe to a safe house in Germany. Rasoulof spoke to us this morning…

The Directors Guild of America is standing in solidarity with Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof who had fled authoritarian Iran, and is currently at the Cannes Film Festival with his competition title The Seed of the Sacred Fig. "The Directors Guild of America strongly supports Director Mohammad…

Dissident 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…

Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and is currently staying in what he described as an "undisclosed location in Europe" in a statement shared with the international press this afternoon.  "I arrived in Europe a few days ago after a long and complicated journey," Rasoulof said…

On the eve of the start of the Cannes Film Festival, embattled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is gaining support from others in the film industry. Tribeca Festival co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal have issued a statement on the sentencing of Rasoulof. Earlier this week, it was…

Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison as well as flogging, a fine and confiscation of his property, his lawyer Babak Paknia announced in a post on X on Wednesday. “The main reason for issuing this sentence is for signing statements and making films…