Mohammad Rasoulof was prevented from attending the festival but won top award for his film There Is No Evil, about capital punishment in
Iran Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof won the top prize at the
Berlin film festival for There Is No Evil, a searingly critical work about the death penalty in Iran.
Rasoulof, 48, is currently banned from leaving Iran and was unable to accept the Golden Bear in person. Accepting the award on his behalf, producer Farzad Pak thanked “the amazing cast and crew who, put their lives in danger to be on this film”.