Panahi Promotes Oscar-Nominated Film From Abroad as Iran Turmoil Deepens
TL;DR
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose It Was Just An Accident is up for Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature, is promoting the film from New York as Iran faces unrest and war. He has long defied authorities, shot the movie secretly, and fears future imprisonment upon return, while balancing family safety, political pressure, and a press tour that culminates after the Oscars.
- This Oscar-nominated filmmaker wants to go back to Iran. Even if prison and war await. NBC News
- What Mehdi Mahmoudian Saw Inside the Iranian Prison System The New Yorker
- The unequal struggle between movies and the mullahs The Economist
- Jafar Panahi Will Go to Prison and Write Another Movie PAPER Magazine
- Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment 48 Hills
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