The job of film editing is one thing, but the job of editing a Jafar Panahi film is something else. Iranian editor Amir Etminan has edited two features and a short film for Panahi, the famed director ...

American filmmakers, for the most part, enjoy luxury and freedoms when making movies in the United States that filmmakers in other countries could only dream of. Not only does Iranian writer/director ...

Panahi is no stranger to arrest, having made several films under house arrest, including This Is Not a Film, Closed Curtain and Taxi, the last of which won the Berlin International Film Festival’s ...

French producer Philippe Martin, whose Paris-based banner Les Films Pelleas last walked the Oscars trail in 2024 with Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” has landed at the center of the next ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi had to skip the New York Film Festival premiere of “It Was Just an Accident” because his visa could not be processed in time for the Oct. 2 screening. In addition, the ...

This weekend, I watched the 2025 film It Was Just an Accident, written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, a winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or. The movie opens with a brief prologue. A family ...

Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident (Un Simple Accident) won Best Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards last night. The Iranian auteur also landed a Best Director prize ...

“Sentimental Value” leads the race for the 38th European Film Awards, whose main category nominations were revealed on Tuesday in Seville, Spain. “Sentimental Value” has five nominations, while “Sirāt ...

Jafar Panahi’s dissident films. His films show how a regime’s wrongdoing can upend one’s sense of self and transform the very rhythm of daily life. Jafar Panahi, 2010. The photographs of Eugène Atget ...

This weekend, I watched the 2025 film It Was Just an Accident, written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, a winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or. The movie opens with a brief prologue. A family ...