Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released from Tehran's Evin prison, his wife Tahereh Saeidi announced in an Instagram post. However, Panahi is out on bail and his case will be ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mohammad Rasoulof, sentenced to eight years in jail and flogging in Iran just days before he'd premiere a new film in ...
Rasoulof’s is one of Iran’s leading directors and his film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, is due to premiere at Cannes film ...
According to the lawyer, the appeals court confirmed the verdict and included "flogging, a fine, and confiscation of property ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Iranian court has sentenced prominent filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to jail time for "collusion against national security", ...
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