Tag: Jafar
Jafar Panahi could leave Iran
In February this year, Panahi was released on bail after seven months in prison and after going on hunger strike against the “illegal and inhumane treatment” of the Iranian justice…
Jafar Panahi released from prison
On Thursday, he began a hunger strike to protest that his hopes of being released on bail appeared to have been dashed by the country’s judiciary, despite his sentence being…
Detained in Iran, director Jafar Panahi announces that he has started a hunger strike
Award-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi, imprisoned in Tehran for six months, wants to protest the conditions of his detention, according to a statement released Thursday by his wife. ” Today,…
“No bear” by Jafar Panahi in the cinema
No bears, by Jafar Panahi, is an exceptional film from Iran. It was to be released in theaters in France in January 2023. But the distributor has decided to bring…
The Venice Film Festival awards a film on the opiate crisis and director Jafar Panahi
The Venice Film Festival once again rewarded a director during its ceremony on Saturday September 10: documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras obtained the Golden Lion on Saturday for her documentary which…
filmmaker Jafar Panahi sentenced to six years in prison
Iranian filmmaker and opponent Jafar Panahi, arrested last week in Tehran, must serve a six-year sentence according to a verdict issued in 2010, the Judicial Authority announced on Tuesday July…
arrest of famous filmmaker Jafar Panahi
Arrests of dissident filmmakers and opposition political activists have increased in recent days. The filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin festival in 2015, was arrested…