Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hasn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who won the top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, is a twice-jailed arthouse cinema veteran whose films are banned in his homeland.

Iran has summoned France’s representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film ...

The 64-year-old is a symbol of artistic defiance who repeatedly challenges his country's strict censorship laws to produce movies about Iran's social ... hunger strike. "I'm alive as long as ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran ... from Evin Prison. Panahi said he would not seek asylum in another country, despite the risks of additional imprisonment. ''It's simple. I'm unable to ...

Panahi, one of the leading international directors, was banned from traveling out of Iran in 2009 for attending ... Panahi — who had gone to Tehran's Evin Prison to inquire about his friend ...

Panahi, one of the leading international directors, was banned from traveling out of Iran in 2009 for attending ... Panahi — who had gone to Tehran’s Evin Prison to inquire about his friend ...

Panahi, one of the leading international directors, was banned from traveling out of Iran in 2009 for attending ... Panahi — who had gone to Tehran’s Evin Prison to inquire about his friend ...