American filmmakers, for the most part, enjoy luxury and freedoms when making movies in the United States that filmmakers in ...

For more than a decade, after the government of Iran deemed his work “propaganda against the system,” the filmmaker Jafar ...

The mundane act of a car breaking down one night on a road in Iran sets in motion one of the most moving movies of the year in “It Was Just an Accident.” The sputtering car comes to a stop outside a ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about his new movie, "It Was Just An Accident." Panahi made the film right after being released from Iranian prison.

Director Jafar Panahi spoke with NBC News about how his time in prison shaped his new film, which debuted in limited release in North America this weekend.

A serious, often surprisingly comic, search for truth in contemporary Tehran, “Accident” begins as a man accidentally encounters the torturer who destroyed his health and continues to haunt ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been arrested repeatedly in his home country. His shockingly funny new revenge thriller was ...