Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi

Active - 1991 - 2022  |   Birth - Jul 11, 1960  |   Genres - Drama, Documentary, Comedy, Romance, Comedy Drama | Subgenres - Association Football Film, Comedy Drama, Docufiction Film, Road Movie

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Jafar Panâhi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature film debut, The White Balloon (1995). The film won the Caméra d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the first major award an Iranian film won at Cannes.

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