Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released from Tehran's Evin prison, his wife Tahereh Saeidi announced in an Instagram post. However, Panahi is out on bail and his case will be ...
Sotoudeh was among several women who were arrested at the funeral in Tehran on Sunday of teenager Armita Geravand, who died after allegedly being assaulted as they arrested her for not wearing ...
Hit the Road, the debut feature from writer/director Panah Panahi, is a 93-minute long goodbye of aptly sweet sorrow. Panah, 38, is the son of Jafar Panahi, one of the undisputed titans of Iranian art ...
Tribute to the Iranian director Jafar Panahi and his film 'This is not a film', through which I make a reflection about the economic and occidental values crisis and a celebration of the personal ...
For a guy under house arrest and banned from filmmaking, Jafar Panahi sure gets around! In Taxi, he played a version of himself, reduced to making clandestine filmlets about varied customers stuck ...
Jafar Panahi and fellow Iranian director Majid Barzegar take a 20-minute drive to Kiarostami’s grave, during which time “the two friends speak appropriately of cinema, but also censorship and ...
The best movies on Kino Film Collection—the streaming service curated and maintained by the arthouse distributor Kino Lorber—are a cut above those of its peers, simply because it’s the cream ...
David Walsh: A number of Iranian films have been concerned with the relationship between the filmmaking process and reality. Why do you think this is? Jafar Panahi: I feel that in order to come ...
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Everyone knows about how great the Criterion Channel is, but have you heard about the Kino Film Collection? You should. The film distributor Kino Lorber — known for its arthouse and ...
The best movies on Metrograph At Home—the streaming service curated and maintained by the fine folks behind Metrograph NYC’s theater and the Metrograph distribution company (which helped bring ...
As Luca Guadagnino’s tennis film Challengers makes its case for sporting immortality, critic Guy Lodge chooses 20 of the ...