The freedom
of expression often seems acquired and unwavering in our society, and we can
easily forget that it’s not the case everywhere. The article that I will
present you today remembers that.
May be you
know one of the most famous filmmaker, Mohammad Rasoulof. I told you that
because he won last year a prize in the Cannes festivals in the section “Un
Certain regard” for his last film Manuscripts
Don't Burn.
This film
is a success for everyone, except his country. Indeed he has been banned in
Iran because he is accused to make propaganda against the government. Indeed,
the matter of the film is a plot in 1995, a failed assassination against 21
journalists and writers.
For this
film, described at the Toronto film festival as an "incendiary critique of
the Iranian regime" a "challenging gaze into the nature of evil and
history as its eternal witness", the passport from the filmmaker has been
confiscated. It’s the second time that Rasoulof receives a sentence from the
authorities. In 2010, he was already punished for a film making in secret. The
sentence was 6 years of jail (then reduced at one year) and banned to make
other film during 20 years.
So now he
can’t travel and has to stay in Iran. It’s a problem, because his film won
different prizes in Europe (Nuremburg International Human Rights film festival
(NIHRFF) in Germany and another film festival in Stockholm). Organizers are scandalized by the situation.
They blame a violation of freedom of expression and basic human rights and try
to help the filmmaker.
The
situation is surprising when we know the last evolutions of the politic in
Iran. The new president, Hassan Rohani, makes a politic quite progressive. At
the same time, the House of Cinema has been reopening, so everybody was
optimist. But that’s apparently not enough…
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