Headlines out of Iran often focus on economic and political strife, and earlier this year the country’s war with Israel. But ...
That is but one of the moral questions raised in Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s hard-hitting, sometimes funny and ...
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Want to get into the films of Iran's Jafar Panahi, who went from imprisonment to Cannes? He's happy to help
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 the filmmaker obstacles at every turn.
Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Mokhtari will serve as the president of the international jury of the 4th New Persian Images Festival, where a number of films from Iran will be screened.
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Inside the Real Argo Mission: How a fake sci-fi film helped US diplomats escape from Iran in 1980
The Argo mission was a secret CIA operation in 1980 that helped six American diplomats escape from Iran by pretending to be a ...
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, long persecuted for his unflinching portrayals of life under repression, returns with It Was Just an Accident, a gripping moral thriller born from his own time in Evin ...
Much of Iran’s clandestine cinema, including some of Panahi’s earlier works, is didactic, focused on valorizing the victims ...
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