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THERE IS NO EVIL // DET FINNES INGEN DJEVEL

The winner of Golden Bear Award at the 2020 Berlinale, Mohammad Rasoulof, is a familiar name to audiences at Films from the South. When we presented three of his earlier films in our Directors Special Portrait section in 2017, among them A Man of Integrity (2017), his visit to Oslo was blocked: he was arrested at the Tehran airport, due to his critical views of the Iranian government.

The film will be screened with english subtitles.

In There is no Evil, Rasoulof proceeds with his attacks on the Iranian clergy. The film presents four very different stories with one shared theme: the death penalty. Or rather, the painful question one can face as an involuntary executioner in an authoritarian regime: Would you take someone's life to spare your own? Rasoulof's stories continue to challenge and engage its audiences, diving into the moral dilemmas that arise from the death penalty as an institution – not only in Iran, but in a number of societies where it is still practiced.

- Lasse Skagen, Festivalleder Film fra Sør

THERE IS NO EVIL – Anmeldelser

"There Is No Evil" comes across as four films for the price of one, none of its segments anemic, and each contributing fresh insights to the paradoxes of capital punishment in Iran. - Peter Debruge, Variety

Bleakly matter-of-fact in approach, the film has a devastating cumulative power that grows with each story. - Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)

There is great technique in the storytelling, and Rasoulof's outrage and nausea at the state-sanctioned murder gives the film passion.

- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

To make a movie that ponders the moral rot of an unjust system while under the gun of that unjust system is courageous and artistically potent. - Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times

A powerful work of moral courage and urgency. - Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com

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