Cannes, Venice film festivals call for release of Iranian filmmakers

The Venice film festival called Tuesday for the "immediate release" of award-winning dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and fellow directors Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad. On Monday, Cannes film festival organisers also condemned their arrest.

The world's oldest film festival said it was "deeply dismayed" by the reported arrests of Panahi on Monday, and Rasoulof and Aleahmad on Friday.

"La Bi