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Jafar Panahi Iranian director and screenwriter Jafar Panahi posing with his Silver Bear award for his film Offside at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival, February 18, 2006.

Jafar Panahi

Iranian director and screenwriter
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Jafar Panahi (born July 11, 1960, Mīāneh, Iran) is an Iranian director and screenwriter whose films are critical depictions of Iranian society. Panahi’s notable movies include The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), Taxi (2015), and 3 Faces (2018). In 2025 he won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival for It Was Just an Accident. During his career Panahi has often run afoul of the Iranian government. A number of his films have...

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