Filmmaker Jafar Panahi has a long history with the Iranian government. In 2010, Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from creating films for 20 years for anti-government propaganda.
Exactly a month before the Academy Awards, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, whose latest film, “It Was Just an Accident,” is up for Best International Feature, headed north on Chrystie Street ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most filmmakers, an Oscar nomination signals celebration. For Jafar Panahi, it has unfolded against a backdrop of renewed ...
He also discusses the production challenges of filming in Iran illegally and calls for solidarity with its people. Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the ...
This March, Jafar Panahi could win his first Oscar. But the decorated Iranian filmmaker—whose masterful It Was Just an Accident has already won numerous awards this season—is struggling to celebrate ...
"It Was Just an Accident" from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is nominated for the Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay Oscars. Jeffrey Brown met with Panahi to talk about his ...
Jafar Williams, the assistant wide receivers coach for Vanderbilt football, is leaving to be the wide receivers coach at Georgia Tech, according to a report from 247Sports. Williams previously worked ...
With Iran gripped by nationwide protests that activists say have left at least 2,600 people dead, we recently spoke with renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose latest film, It Was Just an ...
Jafar Panahi at the National Board of Review Awards Gala (Udo Salters/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) Jafar Panahi called on Hollywood to support Iranian protestors during an acceptance speech at ...
Jafar Panahi, director, “It Was Just An Accident” at TheWrap’s Portrait Studio during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2025 (Photo by Austin Hargrave for TheWrap) Iranian ...
At two THR-hosted panels at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, international Oscar contenders discussed repression in Iran, war in Gaza and the personal risks behind their most urgent films ...
As an internet shutdown in Iran cuts off protesters and other citizens from the rest of the world, Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof are calling for intervention from the global community. In a joint ...