The Palme d’Or-winning director of 'It Was Just An Accident' can now appeal to a different court. Tehran’s Revolutionary Court has upheld a one-year prison sentence against Palme d’Or-winning ...

The Oscar-nominated director, sentenced in absentia, returned to Iran on March 30. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief After the Oscar ceremony, Panahi returned to Iran, as he had always said he ...

“I’m going to go to prison for a year, and I’ll come out with a new script.” Before his recent return to his homeland, iconic Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi understood the risks. He has spent decades ...

The new movie Project Hail Mary, an adaptation of Andy Weir's wildly popular book of the same name, released last week and it is crushing at the box office and with the critics. Project Hail Mary is a ...

A Lego creator figured out how to make Ryan Gosling's bestie out of a $20 'Cute Bunny' set. Reading time 2 minutes Fans who saw Project Hail Mary this weekend, and there were plenty of them, could ...

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi has a long history with the Iranian government. In 2010, Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from creating films for 20 years for anti-government propaganda.

Stephen Colbert had his funniest “I’m looking for a new gig after May” joke this week, and I don’t think it will ever be topped. It happened when he was talking to CNN national-security analyst Brett ...

Jafar Panahi reminded Jon Stewart to be grateful for his First Amendment rights, noting the comedian would likely be executed for the same jokes in Iran. “I was watching your show now,” the “It Was ...

Exactly a month before the Academy Awards, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, whose latest film, “It Was Just an Accident,” is up for Best International Feature, headed north on Chrystie Street ...

He also discusses the production challenges of filming in Iran illegally and calls for solidarity with its people. Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the ...

Authorities in Iran have arrested the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in Tehran. Mahmoudian co-wrote the film It Was Just an Accident with dissident director Jafar Panahi, and their film ...

This March, Jafar Panahi could win his first Oscar. But the decorated Iranian filmmaker—whose masterful It Was Just an Accident has already won numerous awards this season—is struggling to celebrate ...