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He won best director, original screenplay and international feature for “It Was Just an Accident.” Best feature went to “One Battle After Another.” By Kyle Buchanan “One Battle After Another” was ...

Imprisoned and censored by his home country of Iran, the legendary director discusses his furtive filmmaking. Jafar Panahi at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. It’s just after 1 am in ...

Panahi, who just finished a U.S. tour promoting his Palme d'Or winner, has previously served prison time and been under house arrest in his home country. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, currently in ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is not here to make movies that pander to his audiences. Sitting in a Seattle hotel sipping tea on a Thursday evening, Panahi said he sets out to make the films he wants ...

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Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident is a masterwork of a revenge thriller. Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival While I have had my share of eye problems, I have never been forced to experience the ...

Every film, they say, is its own little miracle – the serendipitous result of a million different things turning out just right. But It Was Just an Accident, the latest film from Iranian auteur Jafar ...

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 intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors embraced at length. Panahi bowed to “a god of cinema.” Scorsese challenged ...

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 ...