Sound of Falling director Mascha Schilinski: ‘We realised there were many repressed secrets’

With just her second feature, Mascha Schilinski achieved what many established directors spend decades chasing: a hallowed place in the Cannes Official Competition. Sound of Falling marked the German ...
Variety

Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Palme d’Or Is a ‘Powerful Blow to the Machinery of Repression in the Islamic Republic,’ Says ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Director Mohammad ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulov, who in May 2024 escaped from Iran to Europe after receiving a jail sentence from the country’s authorities for making his drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has ...
Winston-Salem Journal

Film, drama to examine torture and repression

Wake Forest University will look at issues surrounding repressive regimes and surviving torture and its repercussions at a film screening and theater production this week. The WFU Women's and Gender ...