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‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Director Mohammad Rasoulof Says Iranian Regime Is ‘Waiting to Announce the Verdict’ for Persecuted Cast and Crew Until ‘After the Oscars’
'Seed of the Sacred Fig' director Mohammad Rasoulof is standing behind his cast and crew who have been persecuted by the Iranian regime.
Mohammad Rasoulof, director of the Oscar-nominated film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” is standing behind the members of his cast and crew who have been accused of “spreading immorality and propaganda” against the Iranian regime. It was offensive for the right-wing government – they closed the National Institute of Film and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and it wasn’t sustainable for independent cinema to be created,” Carri said. But other examples of external pressure can be found even closer, observed Fırat Yücel: “In the Netherlands, we don’t talk about systemic racism and xenophobia, or about its [approach] to protests against the genocide in Palestine.
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