The forty-three-year-old Iranian director was set to attend the North American premiere of his second feature film, Border, when President Donald Trump issued a travel ban. The executive order halted all visas from six countries in the Middle East,

The former president's legal team slapped the movie with a cease and desist letter shortly after its Cannes world premiere but has seemingly remained quiet about the film before its U.S. release date,

It turns out that when you make the film that Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see, everybody wants to see it. At the very least, they want to talk about it. Fight about it. Scream about it. Or, in the case of Trump,