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 ...
“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 ...
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi received a one-year prison sentence and travel ban in Iran for alleged propaganda, coinciding ...
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 ...
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 ...
Iranian director Jafar Panahi says he plans to return home after touring with his new film, “It Was Just an Accident,” and ...
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 ...