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MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN Synopsis Kasra is an Iranian author who manages to secretly write down his memoirs, although being under strict monitoring by the security service. His stories are related to his time in jail as a political prisoner, as well as different events connected to his life as an intellectual in Iran. He has prepared everything in order to publish these writings and is getting ready to leave the country. Several people in the security service apparatus manage to uncover Kasra’s plans. They will do anything to destroy his manuscripts. Director Mohammad Rasoulof was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1972 and is an independent filmmaker. He studied sociology. He started his professional carrier as a filmmaker with the making of independent documentary films. The docudrama The Twighligth (gagooman) was his first full-length cinema film. This film related to real events and persons and was produced in 2000 and was released in the year 2002. Until today Mohammad Rasoulof has made two documentary and four feature films. In 2010 Mohammad Rasoulof was arrested on set and was accused of filming without a permit. He was sentenced to six years in prison, this was later reduced to one year. Right now he is out on bail and is waiting for the sentence to be executed. His last film Goodbye (Be omid é didar) was released at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the category Un Certain Regard and won the prize for directing. His recent film Manuscripts Don't Burn was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. Filmography The Twilight (gagooman) 2002/ Docudrama / 84min Iron Island (jazir e Ahani) 2005 / Fiction / 90min Head Wind (baad e daboor) 2008 / Documentary / 65min The White Meadows (keshtzarhaye sepid ) 2009 / Fiction / 94min Goodbye (be omid e didar) 2011 / Fiction / 104min Manuscripts Don’t Burn (dast-neveshtehaa nemisoozand) 2013 / Fiction / 124min .

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