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Protests mark one-year since death of Iran's Mahsa Amini 02:32. The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his ...
The Seed of the Sacred Fig director Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran on foot after being sentenced to 8 years in prison, ahead of his film's debut at Cannes.
The European film industry has united behind Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof. Rasoulof, whose political drama There Is No Evil won the Golden Bear for best film at this year’s Berlin ...
Director Mohammad Rasoulof has fled to Europe after being sentenced to eight years of prison and flogging by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court ahead of the Cannes premiere of his new film ...
Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof, Zhao Tao, Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero and Cristian Mungiu will be joining Alexander ...
The 82nd Venice Film Festival announced new additions to this year's competition jury, including actress Fernanda Torres and ...
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.
For Mohammad Rasoulof, the stakes couldn’t be higher.. The award-winning Iranian director made his new movie, There Is No Evil, in secret, after his last film, A Man of Integrity, landed him a ...
Mohammad Rasoulof's newest film premieres at Cannes on May 24. The movie is produced by Rasoulof, Amin Sadraei, Mani Tilgner, Rozita Hendijanian, Jean-Christophe Simon, and co-produced by ARTE ...
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof had a secret plan for ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’ The filmmaker and his small team came up with strategies to fly beneath the government's prying eyes.
Chinese actress Zhao Tao, and Romanian director will also join two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne, this year's jury ...
For filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, the idea for his new film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” came not from a screenwriter or producer but from one of his jailers in the prison where he’d been ...