TORONTO - Most American film-industry types know that Oscar campaigning is a dance. One must spend six months flying to Q&As ...
French producer Philippe Martin, whose Paris-based banner Les Films Pelleas last walked the Oscars trail in 2024 with Justine ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about his new movie, "It Was Just An Accident." Panahi made the film right after being released from Iranian prison. Jafar Panahi's been ...
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 ...
Iranian director Jafar Panahi won’t make the New York Film Festival premiere of his Palme d’Or-winning film, It Was Just An Accident, due to a delay in receiving his visa. The delays were caused ...
Iranian director Jafar Panahi had to skip the New York Film Festival premiere of "It Was Just an Accident" because his visa could not be processed in time for the Oct. 2 screening. In addition, the ...
Jafar Panahi will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rome Film Festival in October, with Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore set to handover the prize. The Iranian director will ...
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 ...
That is but one of the moral questions raised in Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s hard-hitting, sometimes funny and multi-layered thriller. It confirms from its metaphorically dense opening to its ...
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, whose latest film won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, told AFP he would continue to defy his country's censors and ignore the risk of returning to prison.
As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...