The legendary dissident filmmaker on the arrest of his Oscar-nominated co-screenwriter, protester crackdowns in Iran, and his ...

Dissident Iranian film director Jafar Panahi told AFP he believes ordinary Iranians risk being "sacrificed" in talks between ...

Director Jafar Panahi has proven that artists can be imprisoned but never silenced; one can never prohibit an artist from ...

Despite winning the Palme d'Or and passionately campaigning for his film, this filmmaker has not been nominated for the Best ...

The Oscar-nominated Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian was arrested for condemning the regime's crackdown on protesters, ...

TORONTO - Most American film-industry types know that Oscar campaigning is a dance. One must spend six months flying to Q&As and luncheons to schmooze and glad-hand and demur when anyone mentions the ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Iranian director Jafar Panahi after one of the co-writers of his Oscar-nominated film, "It Was Just An Accident," was arrested for criticizing the regime.

Mehdi Mahmoudian worked on the script of Jafar Panahi's 'It Was Just An Accident', which won last year's Palme d'Or and is ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated It Was Just An Accident, has been arrested in Tehran, Iran ...

CAIRO (AP) — Iran has sentenced acclaimed director Jafar Panahi to a year in prison in absentia, even as he received new awards for his latest movie. The Tehran court also imposed a two-year ban on ...

The Norwegian drama collected six awards at the event, which was moved to January this year in hopes of increasing its visibility for Oscar voters. By Thomas Rogers Actors and filmmakers were ...