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Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof pointed to Jafar Panahi’s latest prison sentence as proof that Iranian cinema remains under repression, speaking at a Tokyo International Film Festival press conference for the Kurosawa Akira Award. Rasoulof and Japanese director O Mipo are this year’s recipients. “Of course, Iranian cinema continues to face repressi

EXCLUSIVE: Current affairs producer-directors Gesbeen Mohammad and Robin Barnwell, who between them have scooped Emmys, Peabodys and BAFTAs, are launching an indie dedicated to “taking on the stories of the year.” Sisu Pictures kicks off with two docs airing on the same night in the shape of the BBC’s Iran: The People’s Story and Channel […]

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and Iranian-born Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat pushed back on the idea of a standalone Oscar category for exiled filmmakers, speaking at the Tokyo International Film Festival as Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund gave its first five short films their Japan premiere. The question followed the Academy’s recent rule c

The first five short films produced under Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund screened this afternoon at the Tokyo Film Festival, and the two-time Oscar winner was present alongside DFF fund directors Shahrbanoo Sadat and Mohammad Rasoulof for a post-screening Q&A. The five films that screened are Rotation by Maryna Er Gorbach; Sadat’s Super Afghan Gym;

“ED found that funds meant for public works were diverted to the University, government works were executed on its private campus, and funds from contractors who had been allotted government contracts were routed back to the Trust as donations,” the statement said

La activista publica unas memorias escritas en prisión en las que narra su lucha por los derechos humanos y de las mujeres en Irán