The job of film editing is one thing, but the job of editing a Jafar Panahi film is something else. Iranian editor Amir Etminan has edited two features and a short film for Panahi, the famed director ...
Panahi is no stranger to arrest, having made several films under house arrest, including This Is Not a Film, Closed Curtain and Taxi, the last of which won the Berlin International Film Festival’s ...
Iranian director Jafar Panahi had to skip the New York Film Festival premiere of “It Was Just an Accident” because his visa could not be processed in time for the Oct. 2 screening. In addition, the ...
This weekend, I watched the 2025 film It Was Just an Accident, written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, a winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or. The movie opens with a brief prologue. A family ...
This weekend, I watched the 2025 film It Was Just an Accident, written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, a winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or. The movie opens with a brief prologue. A family ...