Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi blurs the lines between documentary and fiction
Iran's judiciary on Tuesday ordered one of the country's leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced.
Iran has launched a crackdown on its internationally celebrated film industry and outspoken filmmakers. Jafar Panahi is the third director to be arrested in less than a week.
Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released from Tehran's Evin prison, his wife Tahereh Saeidi announced in an Instagram post.
The arrests of Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof, Mostafa Al-Ahmad, and Jafar Panahi are being blamed on the tensions between the Iranian government and the West.
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, known for 'The White Balloon', 'The Circle' and 'Taxi', is on a hunger strike to protest his ongoing detention at Iran's harsh Evin prison, even though his sentence has been declared...
