CANNES, France (AP) — “Manuscripts Don’t Burn” tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities’ attempts to destroy the manuscript — a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about.

Rasoulof is also Iranian, his movies are banned in his homeland and he’s been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there.

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