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Juliette Binoche, Pedro Almodóvar & Mohammad Rasoulof Join 3,000 Signatories Of Petition In Support Of Iranian Filmmakers Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha
Juliette Binoche, Pedro Almodóvar, Mohammad Rasoulof Join Campaign For Persecuted Iranian Filmmakers Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha
Actress Binoche as well as directors Almodóvar and Rasoulof, who fled his native Iran last year to escape a tough prison sentence for his work, are among 3,000 cinema professionals to have signed a petition, calling on the Islamic Republic authorities to immediately and unconditionally clear all the charges levelled at the couple. The petition, which can he accessed here, reads: “After months of interrogation, and after continuous travel bans for the past two years, they [Moghadam and Sanaeeha] are now due to appear in Iran’s Revolutionary Court on March 1st, 2025 because of their Berlinale-awarded film My Favourite Cake, which has been labelled as “obscene”, as “offending public morality”, as “propaganda against the regime”, and as “unlawfully” screened without the authorities’ permits for distribution.” Other top cinema figures joining the campaign include Céline Sciamma, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Agnieszka Holland, Hiam Abbass, Jafar Panahi, Juliette Binoche, Isabel Coixet, Agustín Almodóvar, Marie-Ange Luciani, Nina Menkes, Robin Campillo, Rebecca Zlotowski, Alba Rohrwacher, Radu Mihaileanu, Sepideh Farsi, Joachim Trier, Volker Schlöndorff, Avi Mograbi, Laura Poitras, Emmanuelle Béart, Sandrine Bonnaire, Ira Sachs, Virginie Efira, Xavier Beauvois, Alice Diop and Philip Knatchbull.
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