Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi swept the 35th annual Gotham Awards in New York on Monday night, just hours after Tehran’s government sentenced him in absentia to a year in prison and a ...

The dissident filmmaker is currently in the U.S. and set to attend the Gotham Awards on Monday night, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. By Etan Vlessing, Scott Feinberg Iran has sentenced the ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to one year in prison and a two-year travel ban in absentia, his lawyer Mustafa Nili announced on X on Monday. The lawyer said that Branch 26 of the ...

Jafar Panahi dedicated his Gotham Award for Best Screenplay for It Was Just an Accident “to independent filmmakers in Iran and around the world” the same day the Iranian director was sentenced in ...

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 ...

Director Jafar Panahi at the Middleburg Film Festival at the Salamander Middleburg in Virginia in October. Photo / Jabin Botsford, the Washington Post No one at Monday’s 35th annual Gotham Awards was ...

In the documentary categories, Sepideh Farsi’s “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” won best documentary film for its first-hand perspective from within Gaza. Deming Chen’s “Always,” exploring ...

Jafar Panahi picked up three trophies at the Gotham Awards in New York on Monday Award-winning Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been given a prison sentence on charges of creating propaganda ...

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Iran has sentenced acclaimed filmmaker and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Jafar Panahi to one year in prison and imposed a travel ban for allegedly engaging in “propaganda activities” against the state. The ...

The start of Hollywood's awards season has been marked by highs and lows for Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. On Monday night, the writer and director was present when his film It Was Just an Accident ...

Imprisoned and censored by his home country of Iran, the legendary director discusses his furtive filmmaking. Jafar Panahi at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. It’s just after 1 am in ...