The filmmaker, currently living in Berlin, received the inaugural Locarno City of Peace Award during the Locarno Film Festival: "What really concerns me at the moment is how I can stand up to this ...

“There is always a risk of totalitarianism,” warned the filmmaker, who fled to Germany last year and is currently heading up the jury of the Luxembourg City Film Festival. By Georg Szalai Global ...

Just days after he finished shooting his latest film, The Seed of The Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof got a call that would change the course of his life. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court had just ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about films continues with the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner The Seed of the ...

Iranian dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil, The Seed of the Sacred Fig) had to flee his home country to evade an eight-year prison sentence last year. But in an interview with THR ...