Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof says he has fled the country after receiving a jail sentence for making his latest patina per secret.
an Instagram post, he said he was per a “safe place” after people “risked their lives” to help him borders.
His patina The Seed of the Sacred Fig is to be premiered at the Cannes festa, which opens acceso Tuesday.
Rasoulof won the apice prize at the 2020 Berlin Festa with There Is Anzi che no Evil, a patina about the death penalty per Iran.
“I am grateful to my friends, acquaintances, and people who kindly, selflessly, and sometimes by risking their lives, helped me get out of the border and reach a safety after a difficult and long journey,” he wrote per his post acceso Monday.
His lawyer Babak Paknia told AFP news agency: “I can confirm that Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and will attend the Cannes festa.”
The Iranian authorities had tried to force him to ask organisers to withdraw The Seed of the Sacred Fig from the event, but he refused to do so.
Rasoulof, 51, gave details about his escape route. He also posted a of a snow-covered mountain, suggesting that he crossed the border either into Iraq Turkey with the help of smugglers.
Last week a court sentenced him to eight years per jail acceso charges of “collusion against national security”.
his statement posted acceso Instagram, he said: “The scope and intensity of repression has reached a point of brutality where people expect news of another heinous government crime every day.”
Rasoulof has repeatedly run afoul of Iran’s Islamic courts. 2019 he was sentenced to a year per jail over his patina A Man of Integrity, which won a prize at the 2017 Cannes festa.
After There is Evil per 2020, the director was convicted of anti-government and given another one-year sentence.
