Sotoudeh was among several women who were arrested at the funeral in Tehran on Sunday of teenager Armita Geravand, who died after allegedly being assaulted as they arrested her for not wearing ...
Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi travelled out of Iran with his wife Tahereh Saeedi for the first time in 14 years as the travel ban on him was suddenly lifted. Saeedi on Tuesday night ...
Hit the Road, the debut feature from writer/director Panah Panahi, is a 93-minute long goodbye of aptly sweet sorrow. Panah, 38, is the son of Jafar Panahi, one of the undisputed titans of Iranian art ...
Award-winning Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi, who was detained in Tehran last week, has been ordered to serve six years in jail, Iran's judiciary says. Iranian media said Mr Panahi was held after ...
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 ...
For a guy under house arrest and banned from filmmaking, Jafar Panahi sure gets around! In Taxi, he played a version of himself, reduced to making clandestine filmlets about varied customers stuck ...
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 ...
Jafar Panahi and fellow Iranian director Majid Barzegar take a 20-minute drive to Kiarostami’s grave, during which time “the two friends speak appropriately of cinema, but also censorship and ...
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Iran continues to be a site of unrest among dissident filmmakers protesting leadership and government under the country’s current president, Ebrahim Raisi. In 2022, Iranian filmmakers such as ...