Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, visiting London for the first time in 20 years, condemned the Iranian Islamic Republic for “murdering” student protesters in Tehran last month. The director ...

At the Berlin Film Festival, the Oscar-nominated director of 'It Was Just an Accident' declined his long-delayed Golden Bear and put the focus on Iranians killed and detained in a brutal crackdown. By ...

Jafar Panahi reminded Jon Stewart to be grateful for his First Amendment rights, noting the comedian would likely be executed for the same jokes in Iran. “I was watching your show now,” the “It Was ...

Exactly a month before the Academy Awards, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, whose latest film, “It Was Just an Accident,” is up for Best International Feature, headed north on Chrystie Street ...

He also discusses the production challenges of filming in Iran illegally and calls for solidarity with its people. Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the ...

Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Kaouther Ben Hania and producer Jim Wilson all talked about the relationship between politics and film while attending the 2026 Bafta film awards. Anderson, who ...

Over the weekend, Jafar Panahi told IndieWire why his co-writer Mahmoudian was imprisoned, and why the director will return to Iran after the Oscars on March 15. Iran has released Mehdi Mahmoudian, ...

The screenwriter was imprisoned there for 17 days after signing a letter known as “The Statement of the Seventeen” in January. The letter condemned Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic of ...

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Oscar-nominated Iranian director Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident) used a rare public appearance at the Berlin Film Festival to denounce what he described as an "unbelievable crime" unfolding in ...

BERLIN, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Iranian director Jafar Panahi had told the Berlin Film Festival not to hold a ceremony to present him in person with the Golden Bear prize he won in absentia in 2015 out of ...