Together with Jafar Panahi, director Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced on 20 December 2010 to six years in jail for alleging having endangered the security of the state of Iran. In October 2011, Rasoulof’s sentence was reduced to one year, while Panahi’s was kept at six.
Goodbye is a sober, frightening portrait of a society that is stooping under the continual control and threats of its religious regime. Noora, a young, pregnant lawyer in Tehran whose husband has been sent to work in the desert because of his critical journalistic activities, continually faces opposition from the regime and decides to leave the country. That turns out to be very difficult.
Because Rasoulof was already banned from making films, Goodbye was shot partly in secret in the winter of 2010/2011. The result is a disquieting film that makes impotence and the desire for freedom painfully tangible in all its simplicity. At Cannes it won the Un Certain Regard Directing Prinze.
Film details
- Country of production
- Iran
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 104'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
