A well-known Iranian movie director whose movies are banned in his residence nation has fled Iran after being imprisoned and flogged for eight years by the authoritarian Iranian regime.
Mohammed Rasulof, director of “The Twilight,” “Iron Island,” “Goodbye, Pendulums Do not Burn,” “A Man of Integrity” and Golden Bear winner “There Is No Evil,” posted a video. A mountainous space and mentioned he has left Iran completely, as reported by Yashar Ali.
“When you suppose you are controlling Iran’s borders, you are dreaming,” Rasulf wrote. “If geographical Iran suffers underneath your non secular dictatorship, cultural Iran lives within the collective minds of tens of millions of Iranians who have been pressured to go away Iran because of your oppression and brutality and no energy can impose its will on them. From at the moment, I stay in cultural Iran. A boundless land constructed by tens of millions of Iranians with an historical historical past and tradition in each nook of the world. They usually eagerly await to bury you and your rule of darkness within the depths of historical past. Then, like a phoenix, new life will start.”
On Monday, Russulf launched an announcement by way of Selection, saying: “I arrived in Europe a couple of days in the past after a protracted and complex journey … I did not have a lot time to decide. I had to decide on between jail and leaving Iran. I selected exile with a heavy coronary heart. The Islamic Republic confiscated my passport in September 2017. So I needed to depart Iran secretly.”
“The loss of life penalty is being carried out as a result of the Islamic Republic has focused the lives of protesters and civil rights activists,” he continued. “It is arduous to consider, however now as I write this, the younger rapper, Tomaz Salehi, is in jail and has been sentenced to loss of life. The scope and depth of the repression has reached a degree the place folks count on information of one other heinous authorities crime on daily basis. The Islamic Republic of The felony equipment is repeatedly and systematically violating human rights.”
“Russoulf’s newest movie, ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tree,’ is about to premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition subsequent week. He was pressured by the Islamic Republic authorities to withdraw the movie,” reported Ali.
Jean-Christophe Simon, CEO of Movies Boutique and the movie’s distributor Parallel 45, mentioned Monday, “We’re very joyful and really relieved that Mohammed has arrived safely in Europe after a deadly journey. We hope he’ll be capable of attend the Cannes premiere.”
