Cannes 2018: The directors who are banned from attending the film festival

Gwilym Mumford; additional reporting by Saeed Kamali Dehghan

 

Jafar Panahi in This Is Not a Film, the Iranian director’s 2011 documentary about his house arrest

 

Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi and Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov – who both have films competing for the Palme d’Or – have been prevented from leaving their respective countries.

 

Two dissident directors competing for the coveted Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes film festival will be unable to attend the event, due to restrictions imposed by Russia and Iran.

 

Russian theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov and Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi are unable to leave their respective countries as a result of criminal charges that critics allege are politically influenced.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/08/cannes-film-festival-iran-russia-directors-jafar-panahi-kirill-serebrennikov

I was hoping Roman Polanski.