Jafar Panahi

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Noted Iranian filmmaker jafar panahi has been sentenced for six years in jail and barred from directing and producing movies for the next 20 years, according to his lawyer.

Kevin O’Leary drew attention at the 2026 Oscars after arriving with a striking necklace holding a rare NBA Triple Logoman card featuring game-worn patches from Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James. Cameras captured filmmaker jafar panahi watching the display with a blank expression, a moment that quickly went viral online. The one-of-one collectible, encased by Tiffany & Co., is estimated to be worth up to $30 million.

A third year Phd student of Jadavpur University - Sreemoyee Singh – met Iranian master jafar panahi when she went to Iran to work on “The National and the Translation in the Exile cinemas of Iran”.

When jafar panahi’s car-drama ended with a witty caption stating that he can’t name anyone because Iran’s ministry of culture and Islamic guidance only approves the credits of “distributable films”, it perfectly summed up the tone of the film. Kolkata - that watched the first screening of the master director’s film on Wednesday morning at Navina - was delighted with the joyride in Panahi’s ‘Taxi’.

Noted Iranian filmmaker jafar panahi has been sentenced for six years in jail and barred from directing and producing movies for the next 20-years, according to his lawyer.

A court verdict in Tehran has triggered protest among serious-cinema lovers in Gorakhpur. Last week renowned Iranian film director jafar panahi was sentenced to six years in jail and banned from making movies for 20 years.

While the Iran government keeps celebrated filmmaker jafar panahi under duress, he chooses to respond in defiance.

Dissident Iranian director jafar panahi has been released from Tehran's Evin prison, his wife Tahereh Saeidi announced in an Instagram post.

As the world reacts to renowned Iranian film-maker jafar panahi's jail sentence for six years and 20-year ban on film-making, the Bengali film industry has also voiced its protest against the film-maker's arrest.

Now that the judgement that led to jafar panahi's imprisonment last year has been overturned by Iran's highest court, a decision on his release from Tehran's Evin prison is expected soon.

Iranian filmmaker jafar panahi, long persecuted for his unflinching portrayals of life under repression, returns with It Was Just an Accident, a gripping moral thriller born from his own time in Evin Prison. Secretly filmed despite surveillance, the Cannes Palme d’Or winner cements Panahi’s legacy as cinema’s most resilient dissident, turning confinement itself into fearless art.

While inaugurating the first international All Lights India International Film Festival at Kochi, veteran director Shyam Benegal said that Indians should have an attitude to accept everyone with tolerance.

Slow? Boring? Static? None of the above.In his ninth feature film, Bela Tarr is pure cinema at its classic best.

Artists, writers, moviemakers & film directors are peaceful warriors against censorship. Their resilience informs their art, despite all the crackdowns, prison time and even exile from their home countries

For Chennaiyin FC’s Iranian defender Vafa Hakhamaneshi, it was a difficult choice. On one side was the cause of his country, which is burning with human rights violation and violence against women, and at the other end of the spectrum was his professional compulsion.

Gallery Gitanjali, Panaji, will host the launch of artist Vamona Navelcar's biography on April 12 at 6pm.

His films have put Bangladesh on the global map. And now, director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is crossing over to the other side. Even before he begins shooting No Land���s Man with Nawazuddin Siddiqui in October, Farooki will be making a Bengali film with actors from both India and Bangladesh.

Reports of the arrest of Iranian director jafar panahi has elicited global outrage among the cine fraternity, calling for his immediate release.

France's envoy in Tehran was summoned Sunday over "insulting" comments by France's foreign minister after an Iranian film won the top prize at the Cannes film festival, state media reported. "Following the insulting remarks and unfounded allegations by the French minister..., the charge d'affaires of that country in Tehran has been summoned to the ministry," state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.

Acclaimed filmmaker jafar panahi has been sentenced to a year in prison and a travel ban in Iran for alleged "propaganda activities." Panahi, who won the Palme d'Or this year, is currently abroad. This follows a previous conviction in 2010 for similar charges, which saw him banned from filmmaking and leaving the country.

On the closing day of IFFk, 15 movies will be screened, including jafar panahi’s ‘No Bears, Opium’, ‘Paloma’, ‘Promise Me This’, and ‘The Novelists Film’.

Iran's judiciary on Tuesday ordered one of the country's leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced.

City girl Sreemoyee Singh, whose documentary 'And, Towards Happy Alleys (ATHA)', featuring jafar panahi, will be screened at Berlinale this February, is elated that the Iranian director has finally been released on bail.

Last Sunday, Iranians all over the world tuned into the Oscars ceremony to watch Asghar Farhadi's A Separation’win the Oscar for best foreign language film, the first Iranian film to ever do so despite that country’s acclaimed cinematic heritage.

The 3rd Guwahati International Film Festival, 2011, will begin on January 30.

While Iranian women chess players are a common sight, it is the first time that their women have been allowed to participate in an international squash tournament.