Jafar Panahi Articles
Iranian Actress Marzieh Vafamehr Freed; Other Filmmakers Less Lucky
Marzieh Vafamehr, the Iranian actress sentenced to one year in jail and 90 lashes for taking part in Granaz Moussavi's 2009 Australian drama My Tehran for Sale, was released on Monday night (Oct. 24). According to Amnesty International, an appeals court reduced Vafamehr's jail time to three months and overturned the flogging sentence. In My Tehran for Sale, Vafamehr is shown in one scene without [...]
Jafar Panahi/THIS IS NOT A FILM: AFI FEST 2011
Jafar Panahi, This Is Not a Film AFI FEST 2011 has announced the list of movies screening in the festival's World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight and Shorts programs. Both World Cinema and Breakthrough feature numerous films having their U.S. premieres, including Chantal Akerman's Almayer's Folly, Jean-Marc Vallée's Café du Flore, Alexander Sokurov's Faust, in addition to the North American premiere of Alexandra-Therese Keining's (lesbian) romantic drama [...]
Jafar Panahi / Mohammad Rasoulof National Society of Film Critics Statement
Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows National Society of Film Critics' Statement on the MPAA Ratings System STATEMENT ON JAILED IRANIAN DIRECTORS On December 18, 2010, an Iranian court sentenced Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof to six years in prison and banned both from filmmaking for 20 years for “colluding in gatherings and making propaganda against the regime.” The members of the National Society of Film [...]
Global Lens 2011 at MoMA: Mohammad Rasoulof's THE WHITE MEADOWS
Zhang Lu's Dooman River MoMA and the Global Film Initiative (GFI) present the New York leg of the touring film exhibition Global Lens, described as "a project conceived to encourage filmmaking in countries with emerging film communities." Global Lens 2011 kicks off on Jan. 13. The series runs until Jan. 28. I'm not sure you could call places such as Brazil, China, India, and Argentina [...]