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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
Top works
- Jafar Panahi
- Āfsāīd
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 33
- Total plays
- 34
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,441x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,577x
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 3
· 2023 · cited 4,129x
- <i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3
· 2021 · cited 3,744x
- Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method
· 2015 · cited 3,720x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ja'far
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Place of birth
- Mianeh
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- University of Tehran
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Native language
- Persian
- Religion
- Shia Islam
- Notable work
- It Was Just an Accident
- Field of work
- cinematography
- Military branch
- Islamic Republic of Iran Army
- Image
- Jafar cannes 2025 cropped.jpg
- Residence
- Tehran
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- Commons category
- Jafar Panahi
- ethnic group
- Azerbaijanis
- date of birth
- 1960-07-11
- name in native language
- جعفر پناهی
- place of detention
- Evin Prison
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Jafar Panahi
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- allegiance
- Iran
- partner in business or sport
- Mohammad Rasoulof
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
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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.