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Top Festivals Protest Jail Sentence for Berlinale Winner Mohammad Rasoulof

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Leading European festivals, film academies and funders have called for the freedom of Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof.

Rasoulof was last week summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence in Iran three days after his film “There is No Evil” won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear, according to his lawyer and a report by London-based Iran International TV.

The European Film Academy, Cannes Film Festival, the Berlinale, the Deutsche Filmakademie, the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, the Filmfest Hamburg, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the Netherlands Film Fund and the Accademia del Cinema Italiano-Premi David di Donatello have all expressed concern

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