Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison and likely more considering the uncompromising nature of his latest film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” when he decided to flee Iran Mohammad ...
Film director Mohammad Rasoulof made an "exhausting and extremely dangerous" walk across a mountainous borderland to avoid being jailed in Iran on national security charges, he told The Guardian ...
The dissident Iranian director, who fled Iran by foot after receiving an eight-year prison sentence, is attending the Cannes Film Festival to present his movie 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
1/4Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran to debut his film in Cannes. 'I have many more stories to tell,' he says Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison — and likely more considering the ...
Mohammad Rasoulof has arrived. The dissident Iranian director is at the Cannes Film Festival to present his new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, in competition, just weeks after he dramatically ...
CANNES, May 13 (Reuters) - Mohammad Rasoulof, a celebrated Iranian director whose latest film is competing in the Cannes Film Festival, has fled Iran after being sentenced to eight years in prison ...
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 ...