After a full year of lobbying by the filmmaker’s relatives and the ICFR, we can finally share the good news that Iranian filmmaker Navid Mihandoust has been released from prison, and the rest of his prison sentence has been pardoned, by the authorities this last March 31st. Navid has served a little over one year of his original 3,5-year sentence, a punishment in response to his having made an unreleased documentary about the “Women/Life/Freedom”-movement. His refusal to collaborate wi...
