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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At a news conference for his film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammad Rasoulof reveled details of his escape from the country to avoid a prison sentence. By Kyle Buchanan Reporting from ...
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 (France) (AFP) – 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 ...