This article originally published at Iran tried to silence Jafar Panahi. His new film ‘It Was Just an Accident' screams ...

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.

Read: Silenced at home, Iranian filmmaker finds eager audience in France] When we met up in New York, Panahi told me that the ...

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

Panahi’s masterwork of a revenge thriller exactingly traces how evil, once inflicted, metastasizes within our souls and ...

Authorities could again arrest him for speaking out against the country’s hard-line regime. They could send him back to the notoriously cruel Evin Prison in Tehran, which houses many of Iran’s ...

During filming, the authorities discovered “It Was Just an Accident.” But a French producer had been engaged to finish this ...

His most recent movie, the Palme d'Or-winning 'It Was Just an Accident,' is only the latest of a 30-year career that's thrown ...

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Iranian director Jafar Panahi, whose latest film won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, told AFP he would continue to defy his country's censors and ignore the risk of returning to prison. His ...

This key figure in the Iranian New Wave, whose latest film was just submitted by France for the best international feature Oscar competition, reflects on his cinematic critiques of Iranian society, ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, whose latest film won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, told AFP he would continue to ...