There is just one screening left of one of 2025’s best films, a work filled with bitter jokes about Iran’s theocratic regime and the horrific logic that motivates it – nothing we can do to a prisoner ...

Panahi, who just finished a U.S. tour promoting his Palme d'Or winner, has previously served prison time and been under house arrest in his home country. UPDATED, January 2, 2026: Jafar Panahi and his ...

Yusuf Khan is a reporter covering sustainability at The Wall Street Journal in London. His main beats are metals, agriculture and heavy industry and how they relate to ESG and the energy transition.

Director Jafar Panahi has a great deal in common with his “ It Was Just an Accident ” ensemble of characters, fellow Iranian dissidents who, like himself, have suffered incarceration, intimidation, ...