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Investigating Judge Iman struggles with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran
When his gun goes missing, he suspects his wife and daughters, taking draconian measures that strain family bonds as society’s rules crumble. Director Mohammad Rasouloff was originally scheduled to participate in the 2023 Cannes Film Festival as a jury member in the Un Certain Regard section.
On May 12, 2024, Rasouloff announced that he had managed to deceive Iran and was staying in an undisclosed location in Europe
However, in July 2022, he was arrested after criticizing the government’s crackdown on protesters in the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan over a deadly building collapse. On May 8, 2024, Rasouloff’s lawyer announced that he had been sentenced to eight years in prison, as well as flogging, a fine, and the confiscation of his assets.
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On May 24, 2024, Rasouloff attended the film’s premiere in Cannes and held up pictures of two of the film’s actors, Soheila Golestani and Missagh Zareh, on the red carpet. ..
Words like freedom and dignity are not just words, but they contain the deepest pain and suffering of all humanity
suffering that has been unconsciously endured for thousands of years through social and all kinds of oppression by a few oppressors, and many times because of the very social norms that humanity has set for itself through a brief understanding of its social situation. The larger scheme of collective human existence, how do you even free yourself from the collective oppression that has become your identity and the very means to your existence, would be agonizing, how do you even awaken society to the cultural brutality it is inflicting on its own cultural freedom and social well-being.
