“I’d like to take the opportunity to condole [with] the people of Iran about the mass murder that the Islamic Republic has committed and express my sense of deep shared grief with them,” the filmmaker said.
Rasoulof made the comment, via an interpreter, during a press conference in the Dutch port city following the world premieres of the first five short films made by him, as well as directors from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and Ukraine, with grants of €100,000 ($120,000) each from the Displacement Film Fund. The scheme was unveiled last year by Cate Blanchett and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)’s Hubert Bals Fund.
The fund-supported short, which Rasoulof wrote and directed, is the 39-minute-long Sense of Water,…
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