Panâhi's latest film, "It Was Just an Accident," is the French submission for Best International Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards and one of the best-reviewed films of the year, with a 97% rating ...

That is but one of the moral questions raised in Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s hard-hitting, sometimes funny and ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s taut black comedy “It Was Just an Accident” brilliantly excoriates state-sanctioned ...

Panahi’s masterwork of a revenge thriller exactingly traces how evil, once inflicted, metastasizes within our souls and ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi puts a lot on the line for his work. Authorities could again arrest him for speaking out against the country’s hard-line regime. They could send him back to the ...

The intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors embraced at length. Panahi bowed to “a god of cinema.” Scorsese challenged ...

Iran executed six death-row inmates Saturday it alleged carried out attacks in the country's oil-rich southwest on behalf of Israel, the latest prisoners to be put to death in a wave of executions ...

Nine months before she was killed by an Israeli airstrike, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona started quoting Shawshank Redemption. “Hope is a dangerous thing,” she told Iranian filmmaker ...

The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they need ...

TO FILM HERE IN THE CAPITAL CITY. WE ARE HERE SACRAMENTO SHINING ON THE BIG SCREEN. YES, I’M SUPER EXCITED TO SEE LIKE, WHAT AREAS THAT I’M RECOGNIZING AND JUST THE JOY TO SEE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON ...