Latest Jafar Panahi News
Jafar Panahi Urges Iran Officials To Lift Film Ban
Moviemaker Jafar Panahi is urging officials in his native Iran to permit cinemas to show his award-winning film Taxi.Panahi scooped the prestigious Golden Bear prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany last weekend...
Banned Iranian Director Jafar Panahi's 'Taxi' Wins Golden Bear At Berlin Film Festival
Jafar Panahi, the critically acclaimed Iranian director, has won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for his film Taxi. Panahi has been banned from making films by the Iranian authorities yet continues to work and...
Iran Lifts Sanctions Against Film Group
aising hopes that the new Iranian government will lift sanctions on award-winning director Jafar Panahi and allow him to make films openly again, authorities in Tehran have allowed the 5,000-member House of Cinema guild to...
Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Grateful For Academy Invite
Revered director Jafar Panahi has graciously accepted an invitation to join Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after he was hit with a 20-year moviemaking ban in his native Iran.The outspoken star, a...
By WENN on 05 July 2013
Convicted Iranian Director Addresses Festival Via Skype
First he was able to smuggle a movie out of Iran that had been transferred to a thumb drive, then hidden in a cake. Now Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been living under house...
By Lew Irwin on 04 July 2013
Jafar Panahi Appears At Festival To Introduce Banned Film
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi managed to work around the restrictions imposed on him by his native country's ruling regime to debut his new movie at a film festival in the Czech Republic.Panahi is currently under...
By WENN on 04 July 2013
Iranian Director Defies Official Ban Again
Famed Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was convicted of making propaganda against the state and barred from making films for 20 years, has defied authorities a second time by smuggling out of the country another...
By Lew Irwin on 13 February 2013
Martial Arts Epic Opens Berlin Film Festival
The 63rd annual Berlin Film Festival -- The Berlinale -- gets underway tonight (Thursday) with a screening of The Grandmaster, a martial-arts epic from Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai. The director also heads the...
By Lew Irwin on 07 February 2013
Jafar Panahi Wins Human Rights Award
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been awarded Europe's prestigious Sakharov prize for his opposition to the country's ruling regime.Panahi is currently under house arrest after he was sentenced to six years custody and hit with...
By WENN on 26 October 2012
Subdued Response From Iran Over Golden Globe For A Separation
The Iranian government has given a mixed response to the selection of A Separation as the best foreign-language film at Sunday night's Golden Globes awards. Reuters quoted Ramin Memanparast, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry,...
By Lew Irwin on 17 January 2012
Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Loses Appeal Against Jail Term
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has lost his appeal against his six-year prison sentence for campaigning against the country's government.Panahi, a vocal supporter of the country's opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, was convicted last year (10) of...
By WENN on 17 October 2011
Petition Calls For Overturning Iranian Director's Sentence
Amnesty International on Wednesday headed a delegation to the Iran Mission to the United Nations that delivered a petition signed by more than 20,000 people calling for the reversal of the sentence meted out to...
By Lew Irwin on 09 June 2011
Iranian Film Wins Top Prize In Berlin
The Berlin Film Festival -- the Berlinale -- whose jury was reduced by one member when the Iranian government imprisoned director Jafar Panahi, who was to have served on it, awarded the Golden Bear, its...
By Lew Irwin on 21 February 2011
Imprisoned Iranian Filmmaker Panahi To Be Honoured In Berlin
The organisers of Germany's Berlin Film Festival will turn the spotlight on the plight of jailed Iranian director JAFAR PANAHI by honouring him at the 2011 event in protest of his six-year sentence.The filmmaker, an...
By WENN on 18 January 2011
Dga Blasts Iran's Sentencing Of Top Director
In a curiously delayed response, the Directors Guild of America on Wednesday denounced the arrest, conviction and sentencing of award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and his colleague, Mohammad Rasoulof. The two were sentenced in Iran...
By Lew Irwin on 23 December 2010
Petitions Protest Sentence Meted Out To Iranian Filmmaker
Filmmakers in Europe have voiced their support of award-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi after he was sentenced to six years in prison and barred from making films for 20 years after his conviction of making...
By Lew Irwin on 22 December 2010
Iran Sentences Top Filmmaker To Prison
In a surprisingly iron-fisted action, Iran has sentenced one of its most honored filmmakers to six years in prison and banned him from making films for the next 20 years. Jafar Panahi was convicted of...
By Lew Irwin on 21 December 2010
Iranian Filmmakers Jailed
Iranian filmmaker JAFAR PANAHI has been sentenced to six years behind bars after he was convicted of campaigning against the country's government.The outspoken director, a critic of the country's strict Islamic laws, went on trial...
By WENN on 20 December 2010
Iranian Filmmaker Barred From Leaving Country
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was jailed for "anti-regime" activities prior to this year's Cannes Film Festival, where he was to have served as one of the jurors, has been forbidden to leave Iran to...
By Lew Irwin on 02 September 2010
Panahi Released From Prison
Iranian director JAFAR PANAHI has been released from prison after spending more than two months behind bars.The filmmaker has walked free from Tehran's Evin jail on $200,000 (£133,000) bail just weeks after a group of...
By WENN on 25 May 2010
Directors Unite To Campaign For Panahi
A group of 85 Iranian filmmakers have written an open letter to government officials, urging them to release jailed director JAFAR PANAHI, who is on hunger strike behind bars.Panahi began his protest earlier this week...
By WENN on 24 May 2010
Binoche's Tears For Jailed Panahi
French actress JULIETTE BINOCHE broke down in tears at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday (18May10) after a journalist informed her jailed filmmaker JAFAR PANAHI is on hunger strike.The Oscar winner was speaking at a...
By WENN on 19 May 2010
De Niro, Redford And Spielberg Lead Petition For Jailed Panahi
Stars including ROBERT DE NIRO, ROBERT REDFORD and STEVEN SPIELBERG have joined forces in a bid to persuade the Iranian government to released jailed filmmaker JAFAR PANAHI.The Iranian director, a vocal supporter of the country's...
By WENN on 02 May 2010
Iranian Filmmaker Panahi Arrested
Iranian filmmaker JAFAR PANAHI has been arrested after a police raid on his home.Panahi, a vocal supporter of anti-government opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi, was held at his home in Tehran, Iran, with his wife, daughter...
By WENN on 02 March 2010
Award-winning Film Faces Iran Ban
Iranian director JAFAR PANAHI's award-winning movie OFFSIDE, a humorous look at the ban on women at soccer matches, faces being banned in his home country. Offside, which won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film...
By WENN on 25 May 2006
Politics Triumphs At Berlin Film Festival
Films boasting an overtly political theme have seized the top awards at this year's (06) Berlin International Film Festival with honours for a Bosnian war epic and a probe into the notorious US prison camp...
By WENN on 19 February 2006
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