Marrakech International Film Festival to screen 70 films from 32 countries
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The festival plays a major role in showcasing and promoting Moroccan films and directors.
After secretly filming his latest feature, 'The Seed Of The Sacred Fig,' Rasoulof fled Iran following an eight-year prison sentence and a flogging order for alleged national security crimes.
Ahead of its premiere in Cannes 2024, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced to eight years in prison by Iranian authorities.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' is also a part of the Centrepiece programme.
The news follows intense pressure from Iranian authorities on Rasoulof to withdraw his latest film, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig,' from the Cannes Film Festival.
Rasoulof was arrested in July of last year after speaking out on social media against the repression of civil protestors in the country.
The director, who was arrested in July, is released from Evin prison in Tehran.
Panahi was arrested in Tehran in July 2022 to serve a six-year prison sentence for criticising the government, a judgment that was first handed down in 2010.
Panahi’s latest film 'No Bears' premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2010, an Iranian court sentenced Panahi to six years in prison and banned him from making movies or travelling abroad for 20 years after he was convicted of "propaganda ...
They were detained following protests on social media against violent crackdowns on Iranian civilians.
Also a winner at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, the anthology film explores capital punishment and its impacts in Iran.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil, co-produced by Kaveh Farnam, is nominated under the Best Feature Film category.
Best known in Dubai as the CEO of Advanced Media for the last two decades, in recent years he has also garnered awards for some of the films he has ...
The film's producers, Kaveh Farnam, who is also CEO of Dubai-based Advanced Media, and Farzad Pak as well as Rasoulof's daughter, Baran Rasoulof, collected the award on behalf of the ...
“There Is No Evil” is reminiscent of Hannah Ardent, the contemporary philosopher’s concept of “the Banality of Evil”.
Son-Mother has won awards at a number of film festivals in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Britain, Switzerland and Germany.
The film Son-Mother/ Pesar-Madar, co-produced by Kaveh Farnam, CEO of Dubai-based distributor Advanced Media will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
Suzan Iravanian. Suzan Iravanians feature film Leakage weaves the issues of gender into the troubling centrality of oil in the regions politics. We speak to Suzan ...
Still from Downsizing.The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has announced the next slate of cinema from around the globe for its Cinema of the World category. ...
Mohammad Rasoulof (l) and Kaveh Farnam (r).Dubai-based producer Kaveh Farnams co-production with Iraniandirector Mohammad Rasoulof was recently given the main award in the Cannes Film Festivals ...
Kaveh Farnam, CEO of Advanced Media at the Festival of Iranian Films in Prague.The official selection for Cannes Film Festivals 70th annual edition boasts a film ...
