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Jafar Panahi

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Also known as Ja'far Panahi

Iranian film director

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Jafar Panahi is a person from Iran, born on July 11, 1960. He is recognized as an author with one work listed in the Open Library, titled *Āfsāīd*. Additionally, Crossref records five works associated with him.

The subject has 33 listeners and a total playcount of 34 on Last.fm. His name is referenced by 1,187 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Works
1

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  • Jafar Panahi
  • Āfsāīd

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
IR
Active to
2004-08-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
33
Total plays
34

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Encyclopedic overview

Jafar Panâhi (Persian: جعفر پناهی, [d͡ʒæˈfæɾ pænɒːˈhiː]; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian filmmaker and actor. He is known internationally for his artistic contributions to post-1979 Revolution Iranian cinema, and he has been associated with the Iranian New Wave. His work, rooted in neorealism and centered on the lives of women, children, and the marginalized, constitutes a critical portrait of the social, political, and gendered structures of contemporary Iran.

Panahi began his career making short films and working as an assistant to Abbas Kiarostami. His debut feature, The White Balloon (1995), won the Caméra d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, marking the first major award for an Iranian film at that event. Panahi is one of only four directors in history—alongside Henri-Georges Clouzot, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Robert Altman—to win the top prizes at Europe's three major film festivals: the Palme d'Or at Cannes, the Golden Bear at Berlin, and the Golden Lion at Venice, awarded respectively for It Was Just an Accident (2025), Taxi (2015), and The Circle (2000). Among numerous accolades, he is the recipient of the Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jafar Panahi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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