Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof said on Monday he had left Iran clandestinely after being sentenced to jail and flogging on national security charges, a day ahead of the opening of the ...
Film director Mohammad Rasoulof made an "exhausting and extremely dangerous" walk across a mountainous borderland in order to avoid being jailed in Iran on national security charges, he told the ...
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who escaped Iran to premiere his new film at the Cannes Film Festival Friday, told AFP it takes 20 years of training to learn to make a good clandestine film.
He perfected his trade in Iran's prisons, and now Mohammad Rasoulof has received a special jury prize at Cannes, confirming him as one of the world's most powerful and fearless filmmakers.
Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof said he fled Iran after being sentenced to prison on national security charges and is in Europe ahead of the screening of his new film at the Cannes Film Festival, where ...
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 ...
CANNES, France – Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof said on May 13 that he had left Iran clandestinely after being sentenced to jail on national security charges, a day ahead of the opening ...
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 multi-award-winning Iranian director, who fled Iran clandestinely to escape a lengthy prison sentence, is presenting his latest film, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig,' in competition on Friday.
Rasoulof said the prison sentence came before he revealed his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig.. That film premieres in competition in Cannes on May 24. "Knowing that the news of my new ...
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 ...
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 news agency ...