The "Seed of the Sacred Fig" director was sentenced to flogging and eight years in prison for government dissent.

Ahead of his film's Cannes debut, DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter condemned the "unjust sentencing" of the filmmaker over ...

The Directors Guild of America is standing in solidarity with Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof who had fled authoritarian ...

Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof will attend Friday’s Cannes screening of his competition movie The Seed of the ...

"The Seed of the Sacred Fig" is part of the film gala's competition line-up. It is set to be screened on Friday at Cannes where the filmmaker will also take part in press events a ...

The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings ahead of his ...

Rasoulof said Monday he had fled Iran after a court sentenced him to eight years in jail, of which five were due to be served ...

Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof said Monday he had left Iran after being sentenced to jail on national security ...

Rasoulof, 52, one of Iran’s leading directors ... The scope and intensity of repression has reached a point of brutality ...

Award-winning director Mohammad Rasoulof, who made a dramatic clandestine escape from Iran this month, will attend the Cannes ...

Mohammad Rasoulof, a celebrated Iranian director whose latest film is competing in the Cannes Film Festival, has fled Iran ...

Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has fled Iran after receiving a hefty prison sentence and called for support from the ...