Jafar Panahi won multiple awards for “It Was Just an Accident,” based on his experiences as a political prisoner. The ...

The dissident filmmaker is currently in the U.S. and set to attend the Gotham Awards on Monday night, The Hollywood Reporter ...

More than seven months after acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his ...

The son of a British couple detained in Iran on espionage charges has accused the Government of not doing enough to secure ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Sayeh Seydal, a jailed Iranian dissident, narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she was held. She had just stepped out of the prison’s clinic ...

Jafar Panahi's 2025 Cannes Palme d'Or winner "It Was Just an Accident" is heavily projected to score major Oscar nominations.

In 2022 he believed he had made his last film — this year he won Cannes’s top prize with political kidnapping drama ‘It Was ...

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 24, 2025, rescuers search through the rubble of a damaged section of Evin Prison following an Israeli strike the day before, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Mostafa ...

It starts with a bump in the road, at night, in the hills above Tehran: the last whimper of a stray dog unlucky enough to be caught under a car’s wheels. Without this, none of the other events in ...

Beirut — Sayeh Seydal, a jailed Iranian dissident, narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran's Evin Prison, where she was held. She had just stepped out of the prison's clinic moments ...