"We were very concerned for the health of Jafar Panahi and are now very glad that he has finally been released," directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian said. The director was arrested ...

At this year’s Venice Film Festival, organizers and filmmakers staged a protest on the red carpet ahead of the world premiere of Panahi’s new film No Bears, calling for his release.

Tribute to the Iranian director Jafar Panahi and his film 'This is not a film', through which I make a reflection about the economic and occidental values crisis and a celebration of the personal ...

So the country indulged in a baffling alchemy: converting suicide to murder The haunting reverberations of a Kurdish girl’s song in Jafar Panahi ... voice. Panahi was released two days after ...

Panah, 38, is the son of Jafar Panahi, one of the undisputed titans of Iranian art ... the elder Panahi has made some of the only downright crowd-pleasing Iranian films released in the U.S. this ...

Partway through Jafar Panahi's second feature film, the main character breaks the fourth wall, rips off her costume and declares she doesn’t want to act anymore, leaving it up to the crew to ...

Asia Society draws attention to embattled Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi in the weeks ahead, with a four-film retrospective beginning February 25 and panel discussion on March 2 that will focus on the ...

Contributors include dissident director Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Shirvani. The film, which premiered at the Berlinale, received its Asian premiere at DMZ Docs on September 16 – the one-year ...

Saleh Nikbakht (right) and fellow lawyer Yusef Moulai (left) after the release of filmmaker Jafar Panahi (center) In Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, February 4, 2023. AP/COURTESY OF FAMILY OF JAFAR ...

It features insightful interviews with 12 Iranian filmmakers, including the internationally-acclaimed directors Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi, and the Oscar-winning Asghar Farhadi (A Separation ...