Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi (b. 1960, Mianeh, Iran) studied direction before starting his career as a documentarist and as assistant to Abbas Kiarostami. He made an award-winning short in 1992 entitled The Friend, debuting in features with The White Balloon (1995, Camera d’Or at Cannes). Next came the much-lauded films The Mirror (1997 – Golden Leopard at the 1997 Locarno IFF), The Circle (2000 – Golden Lion at the 2000 Venice IFF), Crimson Gold (2003 – Un Certain Regard Jury… (lisää)