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It isn’t quite fair when an artist’s real-life circumstances overtake his work in the public imagination. But for the Iranian director Jafar Panahi the two are unusually inextricable. His own style is ...

As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...

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“I’m not that brave,” the Iranian director Jafar Panahi told Film Comment in an interview earlier this year. “I’m just doing my job. I’m making my films…. I feel a bit embarrassed when this is seen as ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. The third time Iranian director Jafar Panahi was arrested, it was with his wife, his daughter, and 15 of his friends.

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It’s no accident. After a week of visa delays, Iranian director Jafar Panahi has arrived in the U.S. Last week, Panahi, who was set to debut his Palm d’Or winner, It Was Just an Accident, at the New ...