Jafar Panahi has launched an impassioned appeal for Iran to 'initiate' a 'responsive and democratic government' amid ...

Mubi has bought Jafar Panahi's "This Was Just an Accident" which marked the Iranian auteur's big comeback to the festival.

This world-renowned Iranian director was barred from making films in his own country. Now, he has come to Sydney under a veil of secrecy to promote his latest work, which is based on his ...

Panahi received the 2025 Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also the focus of the 2025 Sydney ...

Jafar Panahi in Cannes in 1995 ... In 2006, Sony Pictures Classics tried to get Offside nominated and even wrote a letter to Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, asking them to ...

By the time he began making his next film, “Offside,” in 2005 ... The sight of Juliette Binoche embracing Jafar Panahi on the Lumière stage had a particular full-circle poignancy.

It Was Just an Accident, the most recent film by renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, won the coveted ... he took home the Silver Bear in Berlin for Offside (2006) and the Golden Lion in ...

Take heed: Jafar Panahi is no longer the filmmaker he once was, transforming from understated humanist (in films such as “The White Balloon” and “Offside”) to open critic of the Iranian ...

Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi struck a chord with “It Was ... previously won prizes “The Circle,” “Offside,” “This is Not a Film,” “Taxi” and “No Bears,” winner ...