Saberi receives special award at Cannes.

The Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is on the Cannes Film Festival awards. Together with Bahman Ghobadi, she wrote the screenplay for a film about the underground music scene in Tehran - where it is the beginning of the year for alleged espionage was sentenced.

 

Cannes - A film on which the recent imprisonment of an Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi dismissed as a co-author was involved, is on Saturday in a competition of the Cannes Film Festival awards. The "No One Knows About Persian Cats" won in the festival program "Un Certain Regard" a Special Jury Prize. The film is about the Tehran's underground music scene and the risk of Iranian musicians, censored or imprisoned them.

Saberi has the script together with its partner, Bahman Ghobadi, who has also directed. The 32-year-old reporter, both the Iranian and American citizenship, was the end of January in Tehran were arrested and accused of spying to eight years in prison. After the transformation of the ruling in a two-year suspended sentence she was released. She returned on Friday after a several-stop in Vienna in the U.S..

The 62nd Cannes International Film Festival is on Sunday with the awarding of the Golden Palm at the end.