Film Director Flees Iran On Foot, Receives Standing Ovation At Cannes
- By RFE/RL's Radio Farda,
- Babak Ghafooriazar and
- AP
The Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has received a special jury award and a 12-minute standing ovation after his new film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Rasoulof spoke to RFE/RL at the festival about how he escaped Iran on foot through a secret mountainous route just weeks earlier to avoid an eight-year prison sentence.