Read: Silenced at home, Iranian filmmaker finds eager audience in France] When we met up in New York, Panahi told me that the ...
“It Was Just an Accident” is Panahi’s tribute to those people whose lived experience is reflected in the collection of ...
Director Jafar Panahi spoke with NBC News about how his time in prison shaped his new film, which debuted in limited release ...
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.
The new film is part revenge story, part observational comedy and part mournful tragedy. There was little surprise that 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 ...
It Was Just an Accident' editor Amir Etminan talks cutting Jafar Panahi's movie in secret, in a makeshift apartment serving ...
A film from Iran that has been kept secret so far to ensure the safety of its delegation, along with Dakota Johnson, Stellan Skarsgård, Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps, has joined the lineup for the ...
The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association has stepped-up calls for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reappraise its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema ...
TEHRAN – Prominent Iranian filmmaker and screenwriter Nasser Taghvai passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84. His wife, ...
“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...
Taghvai came to be known for standing against censorship, both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution which toppled ...