(13 Jul 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Berlin, Germany - 18 February 2006
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1. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on the red carpet
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Venice, Italy - 11 September 2000
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2. Panahi and crew on the red carpet
3. Panahi holding the Golden Lion posing for photos
4. Close of Golden Lion award
STORYLINE:
Iranian authorities have arrested an internationally renowned filmmaker, the third Iranian director to be locked up in less than a week, as the government escalates a crackdown on the country's celebrated cinema industry.
Jafar Panahi, one of the country's best-known dissident filmmakers, had gone to the prosecutor's office in Tehran to check on the cases of his two colleagues detained last week when security forces scooped him up, according to reports in several Iranian newspapers on Tuesday.
The Cannes Film Festival condemned the arrests as part of a worrisome crackdown on the arts in Iran.
The increased pressure on filmmakers follows a wave of arrests in recent months as tensions escalate between Iran's hard-line government and the West.
In 2011, Panahi received a six-year prison sentence on charges of creating anti-government propaganda and was banned from filmmaking for 20 years. He was also barred from leaving the country.
However, the sentence was never really enforced and Panahi continued to make underground films - without government script approval or permits - which were released abroad to great acclaim.
Panahi has won multiple festival awards, including the 2015 Berlin Golden Bear for “Taxi,” a wide-ranging meditation on poverty, sexism and censorship in Iran, and the Venice Golden Lion in 2000 for “The Circle,” a deep dive into women's lives in Iran's patriarchal society.
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