Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for best picture for There Is No Evil, a film about individual freedom under an authoritarian regime and its exercise of the death penalty. Rasoulof defied a filming ban to make the movie. A prominent critic of the Islamic regime in Tehran, Rasoulof, who has been banned by the authorities from making films for life, did not attend the festival. He is also banned from leaving Iran and was sentenced to a year in prison in 2017. In There Is No Evil, Rasoulof uses four tragically interconnected stories to set out his case against the nation's death penalty and show how life under oppressive regimes comes down to a choice between either resisting or surviving. Australian Associated Press
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has ben banned by the authorities from making films for life.
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for best picture for There Is No Evil, a film about individual freedom under an authoritarian regime and its exercise of the death penalty.
Rasoulof defied a filming ban to make the movie.
A prominent critic of the Islamic regime in Tehran, Rasoulof, who has been banned by the authorities from making films for life, did not attend the festival. He is also banned from leaving Iran and was sentenced to a year in prison in 2017.
In There Is No Evil, Rasoulof uses four tragically interconnected stories to set out his case against the nation's death penalty and show how life under oppressive regimes comes down to a choice between either resisting or surviving.
