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 ...

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 ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and traveled to Europe clandestinely after being sentenced to eight years in prison by the country’s authorities, who pressured him to pull his ...

It is unclear if the director, who was last week sentenced to prison in Iran, will be at the Cannes premiere of his latest film, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig.' By Mia Galuppo Film Writer Mohammad ...

"I can confirm that Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and will attend the Cannes festival," Paknia told AFP on Monday. Rasoulof, 51, was not believed to have been in jail.

Film director Mohammad Rasoulof made an "exhausting and extremely dangerous" walk across a mountainous borderland in order to ...

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, 51, was not believed to have been in jail. It is common in Iran for defendants to be outside prison when sentences are handed out and later called to jail to serve their terms ...

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.