An award-winning Iranian director, whose film is showing at the Cannes Film Festival, has fled Iran, only days after being sentenced to eight years in prison on national security charges.

AP Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulofs There Is No Evil won the Golden Bear prize Saturday for best picture at the Berlin Film Festival. Rasoulof wasnt there to accept the award due to a travel ban imposed on him by Iranian authorities. There Is No Evil tells four stories loosely connected to the use of the death penalty in Iran and dealing with ...

IRNA A Man of Integrity, the latest work of Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof, won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday evening. He had won the best director award in the same section in 2011 for Be Omid-e Didar (Goodbye). In this year's Cannes Festival, the US director Taylor Sheridan was ...

(Reuters) - An Iranian director who was jailed for anti-government propaganda in 2010 emerged at the Cannes film festival on Friday to premiere a new film about state oppression that he shot in secret in his home country. Mohammad Rasoulof was found guilty of "actions and propaganda against the system" after trying to make a documentary about the ...