This Oscar-nominated filmmaker wants to go back to Iran. Even if prison and war await.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been confronted with a strange task in recent weeks: promoting his Oscar-nominated movie as ...

Inside Jafar Panahi’s decision to face prison in Iran after the Oscars

Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director behind double Oscar nominee "It Was Just an Accident," will walk the glittering red carpet ...
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Jafar Panahi on His Iran Prison Sentence: ‘I Know My Films Don’t Please the Government’ but ‘I Will Go Back’

Cannes winner Jafar Panahi addressed his recent Iran prison sentence while speaking at the Marrakech Film Festival in Morocco, saying he plans to return to his country as soon as he finishes his Oscar ...
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Filmmaker accepts three awards in U.S. as Iran sentences him to prison

NEW YORK — No one at Monday’s 35th annual Gotham Awards was riding a bigger emotional roller coaster than Jafar Panahi. Hours before the ceremony that many consider the unofficial start of Oscars ...
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Iranian film director Jafar Panahi plans to return home despite a new prison sentence against him

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Acclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi said on Thursday he plans to return home after touring with his new film, “It Was Just an Accident,” and that he has never ...

If this Iranian thriller doesn’t win an Oscar, the Academy has no spine

Jafar Panahi, the most talked-about, globally esteemed Iranian film-maker of this century, will go to the Oscars next weekend ...
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Jafar Panahi’s Prison Sentence Appeal Sets Hearing Date in Iran

The director, who in 2025 won Cannes' Palme d'Or for 'It Was Just an Accident,' was sentenced to one year in prison in absentia early December. By Lily Ford Palme d’Or-winning director Jafar Panahi ...
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What Mehdi Mahmoudian Saw Inside the Iranian Prison System

The activist and Oscar-nominated co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident” speaks about the abuses he’s witnessed and endured, ...
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Mahnaz Mohammadi on Depicting Iran’s Evin Prison in Berlin Film ‘Roya’: ‘You Have to Tell the Story Through the Displacement, Silence and Rupture’

The dissident director discusses the choices she made in depicting Iran’s notorious prison for political prisoners and intellectuals where she spent time behind bars Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz ...