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‘Woman And Child’ Director Saeed Roustaee Hints At Fears Of Arrest In Iran Over Cannes Film: “I Hope I’ll Be Able To Go Back Safely”
Woman And Child’ Director Saeed Roustaee Hints At Fears Of Arrest In Iran Over Cannes Film: “I hope I’ll Be Able To Go Back Safely”
Saeed Roustaee and Parinaz Izadyar speak at the Cannes Press conference for Mother and Child Getty Images Saeed Roustaee has revealed that he wonders whether he will be arrested on his return to his native Iran following the premiere of his female-focused drama Mother and Child in Competition in Cannes this week. Roustaee fell foul of Iran’s Islamic Regime authorities in 2023, after he screened his last film Leila’s Brothers in Cannes without their permission. Roustaee replied his storytelling followed in a tradition of other Iranian directors who have sought to make social films over the last 45 years, implying since the event of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
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