Jafar Panahi
5 titles · iranian new wave
A little girl in Tehran wants a fat goldfish for the New Year in The White Balloon, Jafar Panahi's first feature. By Offside, which follows women trying to get into a World Cup qualifier they are banned from watching, his films were testing Iran's rules head on. Sentenced to six years in prison and a twenty-year filmmaking ban, he shot This Is Not a Film at home and kept working, through No Bears to It Was Just an Accident, which won the Palme d'Or in 2025.
Signature
- Real locations and non-professional actors.
- Iranian rules, and the people who find their way around them (Offside, No Bears).
- Panahi on screen, filming under a ban (This Is Not a Film, No Bears).
- Girls and women testing the limits.
fit
