Iran has sentenced acclaimed 'It Was Just an Accident' director Jafar Panahi to five years in prison. Charges remain unclear.

Tehran has begun seizing the assets of an acclaimed Iranian film director after a court sentenced him to more than five years in prison.

Charges against him are unclear after return to Iran despite being sentenced last year for ‘propaganda activities’ ...

Acclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to another lengthy prison term, according to a media report. A Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced the 66-year-old filmmaker to ...

The director talks about acting for the first time, shooting without permits and why he still hopes Iranian audiences will see 'The Banning Curse,' which premieres at the London Film Festival: "I ...

Vienna, IRNA – Iran’s cinema took the spotlight in Rome as 10 feature, short, and documentary films were screened for audiences during a three-day program attended by filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts ...

In the unnerving docu "Third Land," director and Iranian émigré Farzad Khoshdast chronicles the permanent limbo of a family ...

Director Asghar Farhadi slammed Ben Affleck's "Argo" at the Rio Film Festival, calling it a "Hollywood thing" that portrays Iran "like you're in hell." ...

The latest sentence was handed down in absentia, according to Panahi’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, who spoke to Iranian reformist media outlet Emtedad.

Iranian director Mohsen Gharaei, who is at the Venice Film Festival with well-received drama “Falling House,” is set to shoot a new film titled “Centrifugal Force” that will capture “the impossible ...

Iranian director Ali Asgari’s contemporary Tehran-set drama A Bit Of Light premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Friday evening as the penultimate competition screening. The raw, timely drama was ...