The 63rd New York Film Festival's Main Slate will include new films from Noah Baumbach, Jafar Panahi, Kathryn Bigelow, Park ...

New York Film Festival, has unveiled the Main Slate of its 63rd edition with prize winners from top fests led by Cannes from Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident (Palme d'Or) and Joachim Trier's ...

Iranian director Ali Ahmadzadeh, who won Locarno’s Golden Leopard for his clandestinely shot film Critical Zone in 2023 , ...

George Clooney’s “Jay Kelly,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” and Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice” have been added to ...

Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired international rights to Valentyn Vasyanovych’s “To the Victory!” in ...

The Busan award follows Panahi’s historic Palme d’Or win at Cannes in May for 'It Was Just an Accident' and caps a career defined by artistic resistance and critical acclaim.

Neon has acquired the North American rights to the Japanese thriller “Exit 8.” The film screened as part of the Midnight ...

Director Jafar Panahi poses for a portrait photograph for the film 'It Was Just an Accident' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

At 20, Jafar Panahi's studies were interrupted by the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). He served in the military from 1980-1982, producing a war documentary for Iranian television during that time.

Jafar Panahi ’s wife Tahereh Saeedi issued a fresh appeal for her imprisoned husband to be released as his period of captivity entered 200 days, in an Instagram post on Thursday.