Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has addressed the circumstances that led to his film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” being selected as Germany’s entry to the Oscars, rather than that of his native Iran.
Rasoulof was speaking at the Busan International Film Festival where he is serving as the president of the New Currents competition jury. In May, the filmmaker escaped to Europe after receiving sentence of jail and flogging from the Iranian authorities. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” – about an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran who grapples with mistrust and paranoia as anti-government protests intensify and his family life is devastated – won
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