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 ...

Panahi, who just finished a U.S. tour promoting his Palme d'Or winner, has previously served prison time and been under house arrest in his home country. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, currently in ...

The dissident filmmaker is currently in the U.S. and set to attend the Gotham Awards on Monday night, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. By Etan Vlessing, Scott Feinberg Iran has sentenced the ...

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 ...

He's off on a road tour! The best-in-the-biz indie distributor Neon has just announced that they're taking award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on a tour around the US for Q&As for his new ...

Seattle moviegoers will have the rare opportunity on Nov. 20 to see one of the most acclaimed international filmmakers working today. Jafar Panahi will discuss his riveting new film, “It Was Just an ...

In 2010, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested by his government and accused of making propaganda films critiquing the regime. In prison, Panahi wrote letters detailing mistreatment and abuse, ...

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For more than a decade, after the government of Iran deemed his work “propaganda against the system,” the filmmaker Jafar Panahi was banned from making films or leaving the country. He spent some of ...

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident is a masterwork of a revenge thriller. Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival While I have had my share of eye problems, I have never been forced to experience the ...

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