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 ...

After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he's fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Associated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...