CANNES, France (AFP)-Iranian dissident Mohammad Rasoulof won the Cannes Award for the best control in the UN certain regard section of the Saturday, but could not participate in the "Kafkaesque", due to the authorities of the home.
Rasoulof's wife received the award: "to be Omid e Didar" (Goodbye), after the installation of speculation as to whether or not the President, which is the time for lengthy jail sentence should leave films, Iran, on behalf of the manufacturer.
"I thank the crew and those who helped this movie here, the Festival and the jury," said Mrs. Rasoulof, wearing a gray coat of arms of silk waste and loose scarf over her hair.
Serbian Director Emir Kusturica, gave the jury award of the film, which tells the ironically, young lawyer in the case of applications for leave Tehran Iran story.
December the Court sentenced Rasoulof, accompanied by Director Jafar Panahi, exchanges for six years in jail and barred him from making films in 20 years. The two were released before the change, but forbidden to travel abroad.
Rasoulof's lawyers Iman Mirza-Zadeh said earlier this week that he received the official confirmation that the ban on him leaving Iran was revoked.
Cannes organisers said was the "semi-clandestine circumstances", but his lawyer said, 37, was the Rasoulof received official authorization to perform the operation.
But in the movie the French Distributor, James Velaise, told AFP on Friday that a Kafkaesque nightmare Rasoulof was going through, and should not be Tehran Cannes.
"Things are too Kafkaesque in Iran," Velaise said. "Because some people say, you can go to, it does not mean you can. In the left hand does not know what makes a right hand. "
"Everyone loved him, even sending but know that it is not going to happen."
Iran has been accused of the Cannes Film Festival that a political approach, which the Iranians back to films, the Islamic Republic, of the opposition movement, including the travel ban, Panahi, Mirza Zadeh was no news.
The Islamic system has been convicted of "propaganda against the system" to make a movie about the unrest Panahi, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad contested the election in June 2009.
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