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 ...

Another pleasing accept that sells the story is that every character who wants revenge on Eghbal is believable. These are ...

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 ...