The White Balloon The Circle This Is Not a Film Taxi
Spouse
Tahere Saeedi[1]
Children
2
Awards
Golden Lion (2000) Un Certain Regard (2003) Sakharov Prize (2012) Golden Bear (2015)
Military career
Allegiance
Iran
Service/branch
Army
Years of service
1980–1982
Battles/wars
Kurdish rebellion (POW)
Iran–Iraq War
Jafar Panâhi (Persian: جعفر پناهی, [d͡ʒæˈfæɾpænɒːˈhiː]; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature film debut, The White Balloon (1995). The film won the Caméra d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the first major award an Iranian film won at Cannes.
Panahi was quickly recognized as one of Iran's most influential filmmakers. His films were often banned in Iran, but he continued to receive international acclaim from film theorists and critics and won numerous awards, including the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for The Mirror (1997), the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Circle (2000), and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Offside (2006).[2] His films are known for their humanistic perspective on life in Iran, often focusing on the hardships of children, the impoverished, and women. Hamid Dabashi has written, "Panahi does not do as he is told—in fact he has made a successful career in not doing as he is told."[3]
After several years of conflict with the Iranian government over the content of his films (including several short-term arrests), Panahi was arrested in March 2010 along with his wife, daughter, and 15 friends, and later charged with propaganda against the Iranian government. Despite support from filmmakers, film organizations, and human rights organizations around the world, in December 2010 Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison and a 20-year ban on directing any movies, writing screenplays, giving interviews with Iranian or foreign media, or leaving the country except for medical treatment or making the Hajj pilgrimage.[4] While awaiting the result of an appeal he made This Is Not a Film (2011), a documentary feature in the form of a video diary. It was smuggled out of Iran on a flash drive hidden inside a cake and shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In February 2013 the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival showed Closed Curtain (Pardé) by Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi in competition; Panahi won the Silver Bear for Best Script. Panahi's subsequent film Taxi also premiered in competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015 and won the Golden Bear, the prize awarded for the best film in the festival.[5] In 2018 he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay (tied) for 3 Faces; he was unable to leave Iran to attend the festival, so his daughter, Solmaz Panahi, read his statement and received the award on his behalf.[6]
^"همسر جعفر پناهی: می خواهند او را درهم بشکنند
^'Awards for Jafar Panahi', at the IMDb
^Dabashi, Hamid. Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers. 2007. pp. 420.
^"Filmmaker Jafar Panahi sentenced to six years in prison". The Green Voice of Freedom (part of The Green Path of Hope association). 20 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 December 2010.
^Connolly, Kate (15 February 2015). "Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Berlin film festival's Golden Bear". Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^"3 FACES Award for Best Screenplay (tied), 2018". 19 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
JafarPanâhi (Persian: جعفر پناهی, [d͡ʒæˈfæɾ pænɒːˈhiː]; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated...
drama film written, directed and produced by JafarPanahi. The film was shot secretly in Iran and stars Panahi, Naser Hashemi [fa], Vahid Mobasri, Bakhtiar...
named Best Film at the 2021 BFI London Film Festival. Panahi was born in Tehran, Iran, to JafarPanahi, a film director associated with the Iranian New Wave...
produced by Mohammad Rasoulof. The film was edited by Iranian filmmaker JafarPanahi and stars Hassan Pourshirazi as Rahmat. Lake Urmia was the filming location...
Panahi is an Iranian surname and may refer to: JafarPanahi (born 1960), Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor Hossein Panahi (1956–2004)...
directed by JafarPanahi and starring Behnaz Jafari and Panahi as themselves. The film was produced despite a ban on filmmaking imposed on Panahi. It was...
On 1 March 2010, JafarPanahi was arrested. He was taken from his home along with his wife Tahereh Saidi, daughter Solmaz Panahi, and 15 of his friends...
docufiction film by JafarPanahi and Kambuzia Partovi. It premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on February 12, 2013 where Panahi won the Silver...
Golden Lion was awarded to the Iranian film The Circle, directed by JafarPanahi. American filmmaker and actor Clint Eastwood was the recipient of the...
Brazil) The Son of Gascogne (Pascal Aubier, France) The White Balloon (JafarPanahi, Iran) Opening Night: Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, UK) Centerpiece: Thieves...
Storm is a 2021 American anthology film featuring segments directed by JafarPanahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David...
film was noteworthy for film directors of the Iranian New Wave, such as JafarPanahi and Dariush Mehrjui. The film was one of 39 foreign films recommended...
(Persian: In film nist - این فیلم نیست) is an Iranian documentary film by JafarPanahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. It was released on 28 September 2011 in France...
but is still barred from leaving Iran, along with fellow 2012 laureate JafarPanahi. The 2017 prize was awarded to the Democratic Opposition in Venezuela...
was the festival's opening film. Iranian docu-drama Taxi, directed by JafarPanahi, won the Golden Bear, and was the closing film of the festival. For the...
Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, Trần Anh Hùng, Takeshi Kitano, Kim Ki-duk, JafarPanahi, Mira Nair, and Lav Diaz. Russian filmmakers have also won the Golden...
initiated an Amnesty International petition for Iranian film directors JafarPanahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, who had been convicted of "propaganda against...
Marcello (Italy) 2013: Closed Curtain by JafarPanahi and Kambuzia Partovi (Iran) 2015: Taxi by JafarPanahi (Iran) 2016: Tuktuq by Robin Aubert (Canada)...
(Persian: طلای سرخ Talâ-ye Sorx) is a 2003 Iranian film directed by JafarPanahi, and written by Abbas Kiarostami. The film was never distributed in Iranian...
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