Amid exile, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof premieres film at Cannes Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, premiered at Cannes Film Festival. But as NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports, he was at the Cannes Film Festival today for the premiere of his latest movie. MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: Mohammad Rasoulof enjoyed a long, rapturous standing …
Iran's judiciary on Tuesday ordered one of the country's leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced. Masoud Setayeshi, spokesman for Iran's judiciary, announced that award-winning director, Jafar Panahi, perhaps Iran's best-known film director, would fulfill his six-year prison term handed down in 2011 on charges of producing antigovernment propaganda, …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday ordered one of the country’s leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced. Masoud Setayeshi, spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, announced that award-winning director, Jafar Panahi, perhaps Iran’s best-known film director, would fulfill his six-year prison term handed down in 2011 on …
