Jafar Panahi

According to a statement sent by his wife on Thursday, renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been imprisoned for the past six months, said he has started a hunger strike to protest his confinement. Even...

Jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi received a special Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for his film-within-a-film in which he plays the protagonist, ‘No Bears’. Panahi, who won the top prize, Golden Lion,...

The new film by Iran’s Jafar Panahi, who is banned from leaving Iran, has premiered to a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival, with a seat left symbolically empty for the dissident director. Panahi’s children...