In the documentary categories, Sepideh Farsi’s “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” won best documentary film for its first-hand perspective from within Gaza. Deming Chen’s “Always,” exploring ...

The dissident filmmaker is currently in the U.S. and set to attend the Gotham Awards on Monday night, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. By Etan Vlessing, Scott Feinberg Iran has sentenced the ...

Panahi, who just finished a U.S. tour promoting his Palme d'Or winner, has previously served prison time and been under house arrest in his home country. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, currently in ...

Iran has sentenced Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi in absentia to one year in prison and imposed a two-year travel ban for alleged “propaganda activities,” his lawyer said on Monday. The ...

Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi swept the 35th annual Gotham Awards in New York on Monday night, just hours after Tehran’s government sentenced him in absentia to a year in prison and a ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was crowned best feature film and the dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won three awards Monday at the 35th annual Gotham Awards, a starry ...

Iran has sentenced acclaimed filmmaker and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Jafar Panahi to one year in prison and imposed a travel ban for allegedly engaging in “propaganda activities” against the state. The ...

Iran sentenced award-winning director Jafar Panahi to one year in prison in absentia and imposed a travel ban for what it called “propaganda activities” against the country. Panahi’s lawyer Mostafa ...

Award-winning Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been given a prison sentence on charges of creating propaganda against the political system, his lawyer has said, on the same day his new film won a ...

Jafar Panahi picked up three trophies at the Gotham Awards in New York on Monday Award-winning Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been given a prison sentence on charges of creating propaganda ...

The start of Hollywood's awards season has been marked by highs and lows for Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. On Monday night, the writer and director was present when his film It Was Just an Accident ...