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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.

His most recent movie, the Palme d'Or-winning 'It Was Just an Accident,' is only the latest of a 30-year career that's thrown ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has sacrificed for his art, having been sentenced to prison and house arrest. His latest movie ...

The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, banned from traveling, put under house arrest and ordered to stop ...

“It Was Just an Accident” is Panahi’s tribute to those people whose lived experience is reflected in the collection of ...

At a wide-ranging conversation at the New York Film Festival on Friday, the two titans of cinema discussed what's next for Iranian cinema, and what will make it succeed.

The intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors ...

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

Such humility is becoming in any filmmaker, especially one clutching a Palme d’Or. The citation, bestowed at Cannes upon ...

While Panahi admitted that there were times where the odds were too great and that it felt plenty reasonable to give up, he ...

Jafar Panahi was the subject of a tribute at the Mill Valley Film Festival, but his Oscar-contender "It Was Just an Accident" ...