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Jafar Panahi and his legal team will begin their legal appeal on January 4 against the one year prison sentence and two-year travel ban the filmmaker was handed by the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary ...

The director, who in 2025 won Cannes' Palme d'Or for 'It Was Just an Accident,' was sentenced to one year in prison in absentia early December. By Lily Ford Palme d’Or-winning director Jafar Panahi ...

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In January, the New York theater will host a mini-festival featuring the works of "It Was Just an Accident" director Jafar Panahi and his mentor, Abbas Kiarostami — the only two Iranian filmmakers to ...

Beyond showcasing Panahi's work prior to "It Was Just an Accident," the Covid-era vignette is a moving reminder to treasure personal freedom. The 20-minute short, which opened the omnibus, captures ...

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 ...

Oscar-bound filmmaker Jafar Panahi has reportedly been sentenced to prison by Iranian officials. The It Was Just an Accident director is widely expected to score major Oscar nominations. The 2026 ...

Jafar Panani has been sentenced to a year in prison in Iran and a travel ban, according to his lawyer. Radio France Internationale reports the news today as the director is in the United States; he is ...

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 ...

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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 ...