Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been sentenced in absentia in Iran to one year in prison and a travel ban, according to his lawyer via the AFP news agency.
Panahi was recently in Los Angeles, according to a Financial Times article, but is due to attend the Marrakech Film Festival on Thursday for a screening of his Cannes-winning film “It Was Just an Accident.”
More to follow.