Mohamad Rasoulof is Considering A Return to Iran and Has Three Film Scripts Ready

Iranian Dissident Filmmaker Mohamad Rasoulof (There is no evil, The Seed of the Sacred Fig) Had to Flee His Home Country to Evade An Eight-Year Prison Sennce Last Year. But in an interview with Thrthe auteur shared that he is considering a return.

“Over The 15 MONTHS I HAVE BEEN SPEENDING OUT OF IRAN IN EXILE, AS I’M Sure You’ve Followed, So Many Bizarre Events Have Taken Place in Iran and at Such An Unparalaled Speed Thoto. Script Should i Start Shooting, But What Should I DO? ” Rasoulof Shared in A Conversation Durying the 78th Edition of the Locarno Film Festival Via A Translator. “Should i stay here [in Europe]or short i go back to iran? ”

The City of Locarno On Monday Bestowed Award on Rasoulof, The Inaugural Locarno Città Della Pace Award, or “Locarno City of Peace Award.” Created in collaboration Between the city and the Film Festival, It Is Designed to Honor A Commitment to Peace, Diplomacy and Dialogue.

Does rasoulof not fear prison or Other punishment if he goes back to iran? “I do have such fears. It’s Only Natural As A Human Being,“ He Told Thr. “But What Really Conceerns Me at the Moment, More What Just Being Confronted by My Own Fears, Is How I Can And Stand Up To This Regime Entail, or is It Better to Stay Here and Work on a New Film? ”

HE does have Three Scripts, Written by Him, Ready If The Opportunity To Make a New Movie Presents Itelf. “One, I Actually Wrote in 2012, and I’ve Had A Producer Attached Who Is Waiting for Me to Get Started,“ Rasoulof Shared. “Another One, I Wrote AROUND 2022, 2023, That Period Where I Was Living in My Country and In and Out of Prison, and I COURCK moves me and that i’ve just beon working on more recently. ”

Asked about themes he is exploring in the best film scripts, rasoulof said: “They Relate to the Work i’ve Done Before. They are Connected, But I Try Never to Repeat. Scripts, The Main Locations are in Europe and in the United States, But They All Have Very Much to Do With Iran. ”

His film Sacred FigWon A SPECIAL JURY AWARD at 2024 Cannes Film Festival and Was in the Running for the Best International Feature Oscar, Submitted By His New Home, Germany.

Durying his time in berlin, he also premiered his play Destination: Originwhochh broght him back to stage work after 30 years. Featuring the Actresses from Sacred FigNiousha akhshi, mahsa rostami, and setareh maleki, who also have to leave ian for Germany, Itals with the challenges of migration and opening up to a new culleture Culture.

“IT DEBUTED A CUOUPLE OF MONHS Ago in Berlin, Went Very Well, and Is Still Touring,“ Rasoulof Told Thr. “IT WAS A VERY Good Experience, Because It Related Closely to the Actresses’ Experience of Immigration.”

Locaarno Film Festival Artistic Director Giona A. NAZZARO ON MONDAY LAUDAY The IRANIAN FILMMAKER FOR HIS WORK “That Can Be Understood As a HYMN TO HUMAN DIGNITY,” Adding: “Adding:” Adding: “Adding: For Human Dignity Can a Renewed Spirit of Peace Arise. ” The jury said the inaugural peace of the award was going to “a remarkable creator of Poetic and Political cinema, whose work powerfully and profoundly explores themes of frequent Dignity. ”

Rasoulof is One of Several Big-Name Iranian Film Creatives Atender Locarno78. Iran-Born Actress Golshifteh Farahani Received the Excellence Award Davide Campari on the Picturesque Lakeside Town’s Piazza Grande Square on The Fest’s Opening Night. She Got The Honor from Zar Amir, Who Stars in the Opening Film In the Land of Arto from Director Tamara Stepanyan. Also, Dissident Director Jafar Panahi is Presenting His Cannes Palme d’Or Winner It was just an account at the fest.

If Amir and Farahani Are Still in Town, Rasoulof Said He’d Look Forward to Meeting Up with Them. With Panahi, he have already made plans for a get-together. “Jafar and i are not just Colleagues. We have shared so Many deeply bizarre experiences,“ The Filmmaker Told Thr. “I am Very Curious to See Him Again After 15 MONHS. I CAN’T WAIT TO RECONNECT, Because We Spent Two Periodes in Prison Together in Iran. We Basically Lively Liveted Togher Inn. MONTHS. ”

Rasoulof Hasn’t Seen It was just an account yet but will do so in locarno. “I can’t wait. We have arranged things so that i can watch it here on the big screen” on the Town’s Piazza Grande.

Rasoulof Ends The Conversation with Another Thought: “This Might Feel A Bit Private, But What I would Say Is that I Realize that Sense of Belonging and Being Deeply Rooted Wich. What you’ll be able to portray through cinema, through art. Free in the Sense Freedom Is Something Bigger What We Can Do with A Country With A Group of People. AROUND US ARE OF SUCH A SCALE THAT IS VERY DIFFICULT NOT TO Feel Powerless. ”