He’ll be at the New York Film Festival Wednesday for a showing and Q&A after missing his New York premiere there last week. The fest has also rescheduled for Friday a conversation with Panahi and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Development, production and finance outfit Medan is joining with Neon to co-finance the U.S. theatrical release of Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident. The film begins ...

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 ...

Jafar Panahi's been jailed twice for making movies. He's criticized the current Iranian government. One of the first things he's done after his recent release is to make another film. It's called "It ...

“What else is left for them to do that they haven’t done yet?” asks resilient Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was sentenced to six years in prison for “propaganda against the system” after planning ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, banned from traveling, put under house arrest and ordered to stop making films for 20 years. And, yet, Panahi has continually ...

The mundane act of a car breaking down one night on a road in Iran sets in motion one of the most moving movies of the year in “It Was Just an Accident.” The sputtering car comes to a stop outside a ...

“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 ...

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 ...