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Iran sentences award-winning director Jafar Panahi to year in prison for ‘propaganda activities’
ByAgence France-Presse December 1, 2025

Iranian film-maker won Cannes film festival’s Palme D’Or prize earlier this year for It Was Just an AccidentIran has sentenced the Palme d’Or-winning film-maker Jafar Panahi in absentia to one year in prison and a travel ban over “propaganda activities…

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Iran sentences award-winning director Jafar Panahi to year in prison for ‘propaganda activities’
ByAgence France-Presse December 1, 2025

Iranian film-maker won Cannes film festival’s Palme D’Or prize earlier this year for It Was Just an AccidentIran has sentenced the Palme d’Or-winning film-maker Jafar Panahi in absentia to one year in prison and a travel ban over “propaganda activities…

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Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
ByGeneva Abdul October 17, 2025

Fresh from a 20-minute ovation at Toronto, the film-maker’s historical drama reveals how Britain’s 1936 crackdown created the blueprint for the ongoing genocide in GazaIt is a black hole, the director and writer Annemarie Jacir tells me of the year 193…

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Cutting Through Rocks review – the female firebrand fighting the patriarchy in rural Iran
ByPhuong Le October 13, 2025

Sara Shahverdi refuses to accept the norms of her deeply conservative village as she becomes its first female councillor. But for every step forward, as this dynamic documentary shows, a further obstacle is thrown in her pathBeing the first anything is…

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Palestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: ‘I felt like I was watching my own story’
ByMo Amer, Cherien Dabis, Hany Abu Assad, Basel Adra and Tamer Nafar October 5, 2025

Mo Amer, Cherien Dabis, Basel Adra and others’ picks show Palestine’s rich, yet overlooked tradition of cinemaGlobal support for Palestinian rights is on the rise, including in Hollywood, where thousands of film workers recently signed on to a pledge t…

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Palestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: ‘I felt like I was watching my own story’
ByMo Amer, Cherien Dabis, Hany Abu Assad, Basel Adra and Tamer Nafar October 5, 2025

Mo Amer, Cherien Dabis, Basel Adra and others’ picks show Palestine’s rich, yet overlooked tradition of cinemaGlobal support for Palestinian rights is on the rise, including in Hollywood, where thousands of film workers recently signed on to a pledge t…

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Liev Schreiber and Debra Messing among names rejecting pledge to boycott Israeli films
ByCatherine Shoard September 25, 2025

More than 1,200 industry figures claim the pledge is ‘a document of misinformation’ and that much of the Israeli film and TV industry are ‘often the loudest critics of government policy’More than 1,200 entertainment industry figures have signed a new o…

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Liev Schreiber and Debra Messing among names rejecting pledge to boycott Israeli films
ByCatherine Shoard September 25, 2025

More than 1,200 industry figures claim the pledge is ‘a document of misinformation’ and that much of the Israeli film and TV industry are ‘often the loudest critics of government policy’More than 1,200 entertainment industry figures have signed a new o…

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Israel’s culture minister threatens national film awards after Palestinian story takes top prize
ByAndrew Pulver September 17, 2025

Miki Zohar says he will cancel funding for the Ophir awards after The Sea, about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who is denied entry to Tel Aviv, wins best pictureIsrael’s culture minister, Miki Zohar, has announced that funding for the Ophirs, the count…

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Oscar-winning Palestinian says home in West Bank raided by Israeli soldiers
ByAssociated Press in Jerusalem September 13, 2025

Director Basel Adra reports his property was stormed while he was at a hospital with relatives injured in settler attacksPalestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra has said that Israeli soldiers have conducted a raid at his West Bank home, searching…

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