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Busan Jury President Mohammad Rasoulof Says German Oscar Submission For ‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’ Should Give Other Filmmakers Hope
Iranian director, whose latest work is Germany's Oscar submission after being banned in Iran, says he hopes the selection gives other filmmakers hope.
Mohammad Rasoulof, president of the New Currents jury at this year’s Busan International Film Festival, said he hoped Germany’s selection of his latest work, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, as this year’s Oscars submission would offer hope to other filmmakers working under strict censorship conditions. Rasoulof is currently living in exile in Germany after fleeing Iran on the eve of this year’s Cannes film festival – where The Seed Of The Sacred Fig screened in competition and won a Special Award – after Iranian authorities sentenced him to eights years imprisonment for making the film without a permit. Rasoulof is overseeing a jury that also include Korean director Lee Myung Se ( Nowhere To Hide, The Killers), Chinese actress Zhou Dongyu ( Better Days, The Breaking Ice), Indian actress Kani Kusruti ( Girls Will Be Girls, All We Imagine As Light) and Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR).
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