Director Jafar Panahi visits the Los Angeles Times Studios at RBC House during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) As a child born in a ...

For nearly his entire professional career, Panahi has been facing off against the Iranian government and criticizing it through themes of social injustice in his films; in turn, it has increasingly ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi received a one-year prison sentence and travel ban in Iran for alleged propaganda, coinciding ...

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

Iran sentenced award-winning Jafar Panahi to one year in prison in absentia and imposed a travel ban for what it called “propaganda activities” against the country. P ...

Award-winning Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been given a prison sentence on charges of creating propaganda against the ...

Peter Maurin, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, once said that the purpose of its work must be “to create a society where it will be easier for men to be good.” There’s a social ...

What happens when the pressure to compete is not just about winning, but about survival? In the new political thriller Tatami, that question plays out through the story of Leila Hosseini, an Iranian ...

As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...

As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...