Director Jafar Panahi visits the Los Angeles Times Studios at RBC House during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) As a child born in a ...

As the protests unfolded, the Iranian director was in Los Angeles to promote his latest film, “It Was Just an Accident,” a fixture of awards season.

The filmmaker, currently living in Berlin, received the inaugural Locarno City of Peace Award during the Locarno Film Festival: "What really concerns me at the moment is how I can stand up to this ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about his new movie, "It Was Just An Accident." Panahi made the film right after being released from Iranian prison. Jafar Panahi's been ...

As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...