Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Palme d’Or is a ‘Powerful Blow to the Machinery of Repression in the Islamic Republic,’ Says ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Director Mohammad Rasoulov (EXCLUSIVE)

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 […]