Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has illegally left Iran for Europe after getting a prison sentence for his Cannes-bound ...
Rasoulof, recently sentenced to eight years in Iranian prison, has a film in the Cannes competition this year with "The Seed of the Sacred Fig." In a press statement issued from an undisclosed ...
Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison — and likely more considering the uncompromising nature of his latest film ...
Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and is currently staying in what he described as an “undisclosed location in Europe” in a statement shared with the international ...
The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer told The ...
Rasoulof‘s new film, 'Seed of the Sacred Fig' is set to premiere in competition in Cannes later this month. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof ...
It's possible Iranian authorities are hoping this sentence forces Rasoulof to pull his new Competition title, "The Seed of the Sacred Fig," from the festival altogether. It’s easy to see why the ...
Mohammad Rasoulof has fled Iran less than a week after his home country sentenced him to eight years in prison and flogging. The Iranian filmmaker, who won the Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlin Film ...
FILE - Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof poses during a photo call for the film "The Immigrant" at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France on May 24, 2013.