Al-Monitor
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who won the top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, is a twice-jailed arthouse cinema veteran whose films are banned in his homeland.The 64-year-old is a symbol of artistic defiance who repeatedly challenges his country’s strict censorship laws to produce movies about Iran’s social and cultural struggles.His latest production “It Was Just an Accident” tells the story of five formerly imprisoned Iranians who are confronted with a man they believe to have been their torturer in jail…
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Jafar Panahi: Iran’s dissident director who lives for cinema
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Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who won the top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, is a twice-jailed arthouse cinema veteran whose films are banned in his homeland.The 64-year-old is a symbol of artistic defiance who repeatedly challenges his country’s strict censorship laws to produce movies about Iran’s social and cultural struggles.His latest production
