Festival, Göteborg International Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, Edinburgh Iranian Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, ZLIN - International Film Festival for Children and Youth & FilmFesr Hamburg. Awards Son-Mother Feature Film The Amnesty award of Febio Fest film Festival - Prague The Audience award of Istanbul Film Festival The Special jury award of Rome Film Fest 2020 Women without Shadows Documentary Best directing nomination in Iran Khane Cinema Festival Best Film in Female Filmmakers Festival Travelogue Documentary Best Film nomination in Cinema vérité Film Festival Special Jury Prize in Parvin Etesami Film Festival Legal issues Her arrest on 26 June 2011 was the third since 2007. She was arrested for the first time in March 2007 along with 32 other women's rights activists while peacefully protesting the trial of five of her fellow women's rights activists in front of a Tehran court. She stayed in jail for 3 weeks. Mohammadi was also arrested in August 2009 at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery as she laid a wreath on the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a sniper during the crackdowns on protests against the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She was arrested with a lot of people including famous director Jafar Panahi They were released after one day. After her release on bail on 28 July 2011, also due to international pressure, Mahnaz Mohammadi continued under close state observation by Iranian intelligence, her passport was withheld by the court and the ban to work as a filmmaker has remained in place since 2009. Her home was repeatedly searched by intelligence, and her personal items, work equipment and film material have been regularly confiscated. Her health has severely deteriorated during her last detention. On Saturday, June 7, 2014, the Iranian women's rights activist and filmmaker was again arrested. She has been sentenced to five years in prison for "endangering national security" and "propaganda against the Iranian regime." Iranian authorities have accused her of working for the BBC, a charge which apparently carries the assumption of espionage in the Iranian legal system. Mohammadi denies ever having worked with the network, and has stated that her interrogators tried pressuring her into admitting she had in exchange for leniency. At the 64th Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Costa-Gavras read a letter that Mohammadi sent from Tehran: "I am a woman and a film maker, two reasons sufficient