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Iranian cinema

Iranian director Jafar Panahi poses with the trophy during a photocall after winning the Palme d'Or for the film, 'Un simple accident' (A Simple Accident) during the closing ceremony at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 24, 2025. (Miguel Medina/AFP)
May 25, 2025, 8:57 pm
Iran summons French envoy after foreign minister lauds dissident filmmaker
French FM calls Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Cannes triumph ‘a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression’; Tehran decries ‘insulting remarks’
By AFP
In this file photo taken on February 19, 2016, Iranian director Mani Haghighi attends a press conference the film 'Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!' ('A Dragon Arrives!') in competition of the 66th Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin. (John Macdougall/AFP, File)
October 15, 2022, 7:46 pm
Iran blocks filmmaker from travel for backing protests; he vows not to stay silent
Mani Haghighi was stopped from flying to London Film Festival for his latest film ‘Subtraction’; he says it’s a ‘joy and an honor’ to ‘witness this great moment in history’
By AFP
Iranian director Jafar Panahi poses with his Silver Berlin Bear award at the 56th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, February 18, 2006. (AP Photo/ Arnd Wiegmann, Pool, File)
September 4, 2022, 11:13 pm
Jailed Iranian filmmakers remain defiant, vow to create again
In statement from prison, award-winning directors Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi hail ‘constant presence of independent directors who have struggled to push back censorship’
By AFP
Iranian film director Jafar Panahi speaks during an interview with AFP at his home in Tehran on September 3, 2004. (Atta KENARE / AFP)
July 19, 2022, 6:03 pm
Iranian filmmaker returned to prison after decrying arrests of fellow directors
Jafar Panahi taken to notorious Evin detention center to serve out remainder of earlier six-year sentence after inquiring into fate of arrested filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof
By AFP
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof during a photocall for the film 'Lerd' at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, May 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
May 15, 2022, 10:46 am
Iranian authorities target movie industry with arrests, filmmaker says
Director Mohammad Rasoulof blasts ‘illegal’ campaign, identifies two detainees as Firouzeh Khosravani and Mina Keshavarz
By AP
Actress Taraneh Alidoosti during a photo call for the film "Forushande" (The Salesman) at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, May 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
April 3, 2022, 4:22 pm
Iranian women in film slam ‘systemic’ sexual violence in industry
250 signatories call for a committee to enforce ‘serious legal consequences’ for alleged pattern of exploitation and abuse on film sets
By AFP
Mohammad Delavari, left, and two members of his filming crew interviewing Iris Tzur at her home in Amsterdam, March 1, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
March 28, 2018, 5:06 am
What a Jewish reporter learned from an afternoon with 3 Iranian journalists
Cordial interactions were superimposed over a mutual distrust, says Cnaan Lipshiz, but perhaps signify a crack in the usual demonization
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Two Iranian women walk along a street past a mosaic mural on the first anniversary of the nuclear agreement, in the capital Tehran on January 14, 2017. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)
June 1, 2017, 12:50 pm
Iran TV uses green screen to bypass headscarf rules
Iranian director Jalil Saman says country’s ban on women displaying hair ‘ruined’ many movies set before 1979 revolution
By Eric RANDOLPH
Depiction of Iranian soldiers in a scene from the animated Iranian film 'Battle of the Persian Gulf II' (screen capture: YouTube)
March 2, 2017, 1:51 pm
Iranian film hails demise of US Navy in imagined Gulf battle
Director of animated ‘Battle of the Persian Gulf II,’ 4 years in the making, warns Washington of ‘a rain of hot lead’ in response to any attack
By Nasser Karimi
French-Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani poses on May 16, 2016 during a photocall for the film 'Paterson' at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP)
May 22, 2016, 6:24 am
Cannes spotlight puts Iranian cinema center stage
In a country where scripts must be approved by the regime, many filmmakers leave, while others struggle against the odds to make their mark on the cinema world
By Ali Noorani
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