FirstShowing.net

Neon Reveals 'Jafar Panahi - The Accidental Tour' for Late November

He's off on a road tour! The best-in-the-biz indie distributor Neon has just announced that they're taking award-winning ...

Jafar Panahi to Tour U.S. for the First Time — and a New Short Film Will Document His Trip

Jafar Panahi will go on tour in the United States for the first time, here for his film 'It Was Just an Accident.' ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Jafar Panahi doesn't want to be called a hero. He just wants to make films

Panahi has long been one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in movies, but he’s been absent from the world stage for more than 15 years. In that time, film festivals have sometimes reserved an open seat ...
Yahoo

Want to get into the films of Iran's Jafar Panahi, who went from imprisonment to Cannes? He's happy to help

Director Jafar Panahi visits the Los Angeles Times Studios at RBC House during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) As a child born in a ...
Yakima Herald

Acclaimed Palme d’Or-winning director Jafar Panahi is coming to Seattle

Jafar Panahi will hold a Q&A after a Nov. 20 showing of his new film at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Panahi has been imprisoned ...
The Daily Iowan

Review | Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’ is a brave filmmaking feat and breathlessly entertaining thriller

In 2010, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested by his government and accused of making propaganda films critiquing the regime. In prison, Panahi wrote letters detailing mistreatment and abuse, ...
WHIO

Jafar Panahi doesn't want to be called a hero. He just wants to make films

NEW YORK — The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, banned from traveling, put under house arrest and ordered to stop making films for 20 years. And, yet, Panahi has continually made ...