The newly exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who fled his home country last month ahead of taking his new film to the Cannes festival, has spoken of drawing from his real life encounters with the repressive justice system in the Islamic Republic.
Rasoulof, who fled Iran after receiving an eight-year prison sentence for making the film The Seed of the Sacred Fig, also made an impassioned call for resistance directed at the film-makers and artists he left behind.
