Monday, 1 December 2014

Jafar Panahi (Director)

Born 1960. Mianeh, East Azerbaijan region in north-west Iran.

Was assistant to Abbas Kiarostami during the making of Through the Olive Trees. Panahi's short film The Friend in 1992 had been a homage to Kiarostami, before he worked with him or had even met him. Kiarostami then wrote Panahi's debut feature, The White Balloon, which won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and catapulted him to international fame. Soon after that, Panahi made Ayeneh (The Mirror, 1997), which received the Locarno Film Festival's Golden Leopard award. Panahi received even more global recognition with his third feature film, Dayereh (The Circle, 2000), which won the Golden Lion at the 2000 Venice Film Festival.






Filmography:

Features as director:

  • The White Balloon (1995)
  • The Mirror (1997)
  • The Circle (2000)
  • Crimson Gold (2003)
  • Offside (2006)
  • This is Not A Film (2011)
  • Closed Curtain (2013)

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