Cannes: Dissident Iranian director wins Palme d’Or at film festival | Ents & Arts News
Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi, recently arrested multiple times for his filmmaking, won the Palme d'Or at the 78th Cannes ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Jafar Panahi: Iran’s dissident director who lives for cinema
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, a veteran of arthouse cinema and a symbol of artistic defiance, won the top prize at ...
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Panahi wins Cannes top prize
Jafar Panahi, the Iranian dissident director, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival for his film "It Was ...
Cuba releases a prominent dissident as part of plan to free more than 500 prisoners
Cuba released dissident José Daniel Ferrer from prison as part of a government effort to free over 500 prisoners after ...
Bomb threats shadowed international reporters who covered Chinese celebrity dissident
Wang Jingyu, a Chinese dissident, claims he is constantly harassed by the Chinese government, but an NPR investigation linked him ...
Iranian general charged in plot to murder US-based dissident
A general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Ruhollah Bazghandi, has been charged in New York for his alleged involvement in a ...
Jailed Cuban dissident leader Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara wins Norwegian Rafto human rights award
The Rafto prize, awarded by a Norwegian human rights foundation, was given to Cuban dissident leader Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara ...
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