At the NBR Awards, emotional speeches by Jafar Panahi and Ryan Coogler stir the room

An emotional plea by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and moving words from Ryan Coogler on the violence in Minneapolis have ...

This Iranian director made a film in secret. Now he's facing prison.

"It Was Just an Accident" is an Iranian movie confronting tyranny and corruption. Now, director Jafar Panahi is facing ...
Foreign Policy

Jafar Panahi Has His Eyes on the Future

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WELCOME TO DERRY Showrunner (and Singing Voice of Aladdin) Wrote Pennywise’s Creepy Song

We’re still recovering from the epic season finale of It: Welcome to Derry, which saw the 1962 defeat of Pennywise. And one of the most twisted parts found Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise singing a ...
Yahoo

Jafar Panahi’s Oscar frontrunner ‘It Was Just an Accident’ sets Dec. 16 digital release

Neon is giving one of the year’s most decorated international films a swift awards-season boost. The distributor announced exclusively to Gold Derby that Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner It Was Just ...
The Arts Desk

theartsdesk Q&A: Jafar Panahi on 'It Was Just an Accident'

Nevertheless, Panahi has continued to film without official permission. He managed to shoot five films this way, including Taxi Tehran which won the Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlinale. Shortly after ...
Variety

Jafar Panahi on His Iran Prison Sentence: ‘I Know My Films Don’t Please the Government’ but ‘I Will Go Back’

Cannes winner Jafar Panahi addressed his recent Iran prison sentence while speaking at the Marrakech Film Festival in Morocco, saying he plans to return to his country as soon as he finishes his Oscar ...
The New York Times

Jafar Panahi, Who Filmed in Secret in Iran, Wins Big at the Gotham Awards

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 ...
Hartford Courant

‘One Battle After Another’ and Jafar Panahi win big at Gotham Awards

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was crowned best feature film and the dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won three awards Monday at the 35th annual Gotham Awards ...
Deadline.com

Iran’s Jafar Panahi Dedicates Gotham Award To Filmmakers “Deprived Of The Right To See And Be Seen”

Jafar Panahi dedicated his Gotham Award for Best Screenplay for It Was Just an Accident “to independent filmmakers in Iran and around the world” the same day the Iranian director was sentenced in ...
Vulture

Jafar Panahi Sentenced to a Year in Prison by Iranian Government

More than seven months after acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his latest film, It Was Just an Accident, and one day after Panahi’s U.S. tour ...
IndieWire

Jafar Panahi to Tour U.S. for the First Time — and a New Short Film Will Document His Trip

Exclusive: Stops on the Neon-led tour for "It Was Just an Accident" include New York, L.A., Boston, Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco. Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who is now able to ...