Daryush Shokof made it public in an open-letter to the world press and film festivals that he refused to submit '' Hitler 's Grave '' to the 60th Berlin International Film Festival , 2010 , in protest to the festival selecting again an Iranian film ( this time even an Iranian-German , Co-Production for a film by Asghar Farhadi ) with which he believes the festival openly insults and undermines the struggle of Iranians for freedom from under the Dictatorial rules of Islamic Republic of Iran . The film was rejected by Cannes Film Festival where other Iran-France co-production movies by Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi who Shokof suggests are amongst the Regime , s puppet film directors are selected repeatedly in the competition sections of world festival and finally even granted an Academy Award for Farhadi whose film in his opinion lacks even script maturity . Daryush Shokof condemns all festivals that have so vividly ignored the struggle of Iranians for freedom from under the Islamic Republic rule over Iran which he refers to as being one of the most darkest and backwards and inhumane regimes to have ever governed Iran for over 30 years . During an interview with the German TV channel ARD and with the respected journalist Henryk Broder Shokof compared the Iranian regime and its dangers to be worse than the Adolf Hitler with the reasoning that today we have global Internet systems and the world is connected and watching every move everyone makes . Today no one can hide from the truth and say : we did not know
60th Berlin International Film Festival
60th Berlin International Film Festival
Hitler's Grave