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Mr Rasoulof is banned from leaving Iran.
He is unable to take a trip outside Iran due to charges relating to his earlier movies.
Jury president Jeremy Irons said that the movie, which tells four stories about the death penalty, revealed “the web an authoritarian regime weaves amongst regular people, drawing them towards inhumanity”.
The second-place award at the festival went to Never ever Rarely Often Alw