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Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was released from prison over the weekend, according to Iranian news outlets. Rasoulof, who won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2020 for There Is No Evil, was arrested last July with fellow filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad. He was detained after signing a…

The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR), the Amsterdam-based body set up in 2019 to support cinema professionals in danger, has posted an open letter addressing the recent crackdown on Iran's filmmaking community. "The last weeks have seen a wave of arrests amongst the filmmaking and artistic…

Mohammad Rasoulof was one of two film directors arrested by Iranian authorities on Friday, the country's state media reports. Berlin Golden Bear winner Rasoulof and his colleague Mostafa Aleahmad were arrested following the collapse of a building, killing 43, in the country's southwest back in May. The tragedy sparked…

Several high-profile European organizations have today called for the freedom of Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who last week was ordered to serve a one-year prison sentence by his home country's government. The European Film Academy, Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Deutsche…

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose latest feature There Is No Evil won the top award at the recent Berlin Film Festival, has been summoned to serve a one-year prison term in his home country. Rasoulof was sentenced last year for the political content of his films, which an Iranian court cited as "propaganda…

UPDATE, writethru: The 70th Berlin Film Festival, and the first under new leadership team Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, drew to a close this evening with the Golden Bear awarded to Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil. Rasoulof is currently banned from leaving Iran for participation in social and political…

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose latest feature There Is No Evil premieres in the Berlinale's competition today, has issued a statement criticising his government for continuing to impose a travel ban upon him. "I am sorry that I will not be able to come to Berlin to watch the film alongside the audience…

The passport of award-winning A Man of Integrity and Manuscripts Don’t Burn filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been confiscated by officials in Tehran. The incident occurred upon Rasoulof’s return to Iran on Friday evening, international film critics’ association FIPRESCI said in a statement posted to its website. Kaveh…

What a difference a little bit of time and a new regime make… or do they? Earlier this year, Iran was mulling litigation over how it was portrayed in Ben Affleck’s Academy Award winner Argo, and it boycotted the 2012 Oscars in protest over the Innocence Of Muslims video that was made in the U.S. Now that a new…

Hollywood Rallies Against Iran's Draconian Verdicts Against Filmmakers And Stars Marzieh Vafamehr, the Iranian actress who was sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the government-banned film My Tehran For Sale, has been released from prison, according to Amnesty International. According to the…

Somehow this slipped past us this weekend, but Iran has taken another step toward silencing one of the country’s most important filmmakers after an appeals court upheld a six-year jail sentence on Jafar Panahi, according to various reports that included the government-run newspaper Iran. According to that newspaper…

The hard-line Iranian government continues to be the bane of filmmakers there, and the Toronto Film Festival is speaking out. Deadline has told you how the repressive legal system gave six-year prison sentences to directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof for a murky charge of “propaganda against the state,” for…