Big World Pictures will release A Man of Integrity, the Iranian drama film by Mohammad Rasoulof. The film reveals the corruption and state cronyism at the heart of one of the most powerful and influential regimes in the Middle East.

Winner of Prix Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, A Man of Integrity will open at the New Plaza Cinema in New York, and at Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles on June 24, 2022. Other select cities will follow.

Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and young son, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working on his goldfish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local authorities, has taken control of nearly every aspect of regional life. Its shareholders, accumulating wealth, power and economic influence, have been pushing local farmers and small owners to sell off their belongings, farms and estates, to the benefit of the Company’s influential network and its monopoly. It is under their pressure that many villagers have themselves become local links in the larger network of corruption.

Watch the official US trailer for A Man of Integrity.

Iran’s Mohammad Rasoulof, whose latest feature “There Is No Evil” won the Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlinale, has been making scathing social commentary of the Iranian regime for over a decade, but he remains relatively unknown in the US – despite winning numerous prizes at such top world film festivals as Cannes and Berlin.