Freedom to Create Prize 2009: Filmmaker wins

Mohsen Makhmalbaf pleads for democracy in his country Iran

by Jasper ReesThursday, 26 November 2009

Freedom to Create Prize 2009 winner Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The second annual Freedom to Create Prize, which was presented in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London last night, has been won by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The internationally renowned and prolific Iranian filmmaker, 52, downed tools earlier this year to become an official mouthpiece outside Iran for the presidential candidate Mir-Mossein Mousavi.

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