In terms of the official selection, Ukraine is understandably absent due to the war. After a flurry of titles filmed before the Russian invasion hit the festival circuit last year - including Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection “Pamfir” and Maksym Nakonechnyi’s Un Certain Regard player “Butterfly Vision” - the well has largely dried up. Significantly, Rasoulof, who was recently released from Tehran’s Evin prison, was not allowed to leave Iran to serve on Cannes’ main jury, he recently confirmed.
Iran will instead be repped by the Iranian Independent Filmmakers Assn., founded in September 2022 by Kaveh Farnham, the Dubai-based producer of dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof’s “There Is No Evil.”
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