American-Italian film director Martin Scorsese comes out in support of prominent Iranian director Saeed Roustaee who has been sentenced to six months in prison for the 'unauthorised' screening of his movie 'Leila's Brothers' at the Cannes Film Festival, New York Times reported citing local media.

Along with Roustaee ' who directed the movie 'Javad Noruzbegi, the producer were both sentenced to six months in prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran for 'participating in the opposition's propaganda against the Islamic regime,' according to the conviction announcement made by the court and reported in Etemad, an Iranian reformist newspaper.