The Associated Press
Normally filmmakers send the Cannes Film Festival their submissions by mail. Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi smuggled his out of the country and to festival organizers on a USB key hidden in a cake. The movie, This Is Not a Film, is Panahi's cinematic response to his sentencing last year to a six-year prison term and a 20-year ban on filmmaking. Panahi and fellow Iranian movie director Mohammad Rasoulof, who was handed the same sentence, have appealed and are awaiting the overdue decisions in their cases...[continued]
Jafar Panahi @ Wikipedia
