There is a number of Iranian movies that have won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Iranian directors Sohrab Shahid-Sales and Asghar Farhadi received the Silver Bear and Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for their films Dead Nature and Nader and Simin, A Separation in 1974 and 2011, respectively.
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In 2015, the Golden Bear was awarded to the film Taxi by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was convicted in his homeland for anti-government activities.
He not only directed the film, but wrote the script for it and played the main role.
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The most widely discussed Iranian film to have won the award is the director Mohammad Rasoulof's film There is No Evil, an almanac of four short stories on the death penalty in Iran that won the award in 2020.
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The themes of the film are the degrees of human freedom, the problems of painful moral choice in the most difficult circumstances.
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They were unable to present the award to Rasoulof in person: he is prohibited from leaving Iran.
Last summer he was sentenced to a year in prison for the film Incorruptible, which won a prize at the Cannes Film Forum.
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The Iranian authorities accused the director of “conspiracy threatening national security and propaganda against the state system”.
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Members of the film crew, as well as the director’s daughter Baran Rasoulof received the Bear for him.
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The audience gave a standing ovation, many cried.
This decision of the jury was perceived as a sign of solidarity with the disgraced master.
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Since the director was banned from making films in Iran, the film There is No Evil was shot by Rasoulof secretly.
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Mohammad Rasoulof said that the film is about a need to take civil, human, or any other kind of responsibility on yourself, and on making decisions in a society living under a dictatorship.
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Q: Which Iranian movie won the Golden Bear in 2011?
A: Nader and Simin, A Separation

Q: Who directed the film Nader and Simin, A Separation?
A: Asghar Farhadi

Q: Which Iranian movie won the Golden Bear in 2015?
A: Taxi

Q: Who directed the film Taxi?
A: Jafar Panahi

Q: What was director Jafar Panahi convicted of in Iran?
A: Anti-government activities

Q: Which Iranian movie won the Golden Bear in 2020?
A: There is No Evil

Q: Who directed the film There is No Evil?
A: Mohammad Rasoulof

Q: What is the theme of the film There is No Evil?
A: Death penaltyA: Human freedomA: Painful moral choicesA: Unfree intimate life in a totalitarian society

Q: How many stories does the film There is No Evil contain?
A: four

Q: Why were they unable to present the Golden Bear to Rasoulof in person?
A: He is prohibited from leaving IranA: He is sentenced to a year in prison in Iran

Q: Why was Rasoulof sentenced to a year in prison?
A: For the film IncorruptibleA: For conspiracy threatening national securityA: For anti-state propaganda

Q: Who accepted the Golden Bear on behalf of Rasoulof?
A: His daughter BaranA: The film crew

Q: Why was the film There is No Evil shot in secret?
A: Because Rasoulof is banned from making movies in Iran

Q: What does Rasoulof posit as the theme of his film?
A: A need to take responsibilityA: Making decisions under a dictatorship