'There Is No Evil,' a study of capital punishment filmed in secret def...
Baran Rasoulof and producers Kaveh Farnam and Farzad Pak accept the Golden Bear for Best Film for"There Is No Evil" during the awards ceremony at the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
Rasoulof, whose film explores the moral dilemmas thrust on those chosen to carry out executions and the consequences of defiance for them and those around them, was unable to leave Iran to pick up the award because of propaganda charges he faces in relation to earlier films. Jury president Jeremy Irons described the film as “four stories showing the web an authoritarian regime weaves among ordinary people, drawing them toward inhumanity,” adding that the film “asks questions about our own responsibility and choices we all make in life.”
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