Cannes Film Festival to honour jailed Iranian directors


Jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof are to be honoured at the Cannes Film Festival.

Rasoulof’s film Goodbye and Pahani’s This Is Not a Film will be shown at the festival, organisers have said.

Panahi will also be awarded the Carrosse d’Or – the Golden Coach prize – by the French Film Director’s Society (SRF) at the event.

The film-makers were convicted in December for working against the Iranian system, Panahi’s lawyer said.

Both men were sentenced to six years imprisonment in separate cases.

According to a statement released in Italy in November, Panahi had gone on trial in Iran accused of making a film without permission and inciting opposition protests after the disputed 2009 presidential election that led to months of political turmoil.


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