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Filmmaker · Iran

Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi was born on 11 July 1960 in Mianeh, into a modest Azeri family; his father was a house painter. Mobilised from 1980 to 1982, he filmed the war for the army and was held for seventy-six days by Kurdish rebels. He then studied at the Tehran college of cinema and television, made short films and was assistant to Abbas Kiarostami. Sentenced in 2010 to six years in prison and to a twenty-year ban on filmmaking, he continued to shoot in secret; imprisoned in 2022 and released in 2023 after a hunger strike, he was sentenced again, in absentia, in December 2025.

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