"It Was Just an Accident" is an Iranian movie confronting tyranny and corruption. Now, director Jafar Panahi is facing ...

As we stand here, the state of Iran is gunning down protestors and a savage massacre continues, blatantly, on the streets of ...

At two THR-hosted panels at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, international Oscar contenders discussed repression ...

With Iran gripped by nationwide protests that activists say have left at least 2,600 people dead, we recently spoke with renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose latest film, It Was Just an ...

Director Jafar Panahi pleads for international help on Iran, warning that "a massacre is coming" from the Islamic Republic.

Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning ...

It's a very cinephile film. We try to bring our own artsy aesthetic,” co-writer-director Hossein Keshavarz said. “It's a film that is expressive. It's a film that has artistic vision. You don't know ...

Jafar Panahi thinks the new wave of protests challenging Iran’s authoritarian regime might bring “something different” this ...

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi refuses to be silenced. Having been imprisoned twice by the Iranian government, Panahi was last released in 2023 and continues to resist censorship through his art. His latest ...

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More than seven months after acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his latest film, It Was Just an Accident, and one day after Panahi’s U.S. tour ...