Read: Silenced at home, Iranian filmmaker finds eager audience in France] When we met up in New York, Panahi told me that the ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about his new movie, "It Was Just An Accident." Panahi made the film right after being released from Iranian prison.

Director Jafar Panahi spoke with NBC News about how his time in prison shaped his new film, which debuted in limited release ...

The new film is part revenge story, part observational comedy and part mournful tragedy. There was little surprise that this ...

Jafar Panahi was the subject of a tribute at the Mill Valley Film Festival, but his Oscar-contender "It Was Just an Accident" will have to screen without him.

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association has stepped-up calls for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reappraise its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema ...

Directed by the resilient Jafar Panahi, who has withstood imprisonment and curtailments, 'It Was Just an Accident' takes on ...

Salehi said that nearly 40,000 individuals have studied the Persian language in Turkey over recent decades, indicating strong ...