Jafar Panahi

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Jafar Panahi (2007)

Jafar Panahi ( Persian جعفر پناهی Jafar Panahi , DMG Ǧaʿfar Panāhī ; *  July 11, 1960 in Mianeh , East Azerbaijan Province ) is an Iranian film director. In his films he repeatedly takes a critical look at politics and society in the Islamic Republic. In 2010, Panahi was sentenced to imprisonment and banned from practicing for 20 years.

Life

Panahi with the Silver Bear for Offside (2006)

Jafar Panahi is one of the most important independent filmmakers in Iran. He studied film and television directing in Tehran in the 1980s . After some television work and short films, he was Abbas Kiarostami's assistant , as in the multi-award-winning film Quer durch den Olivenhain (1994). His debut film The White Balloon was awarded the Golden Camera at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival . His next film, Der Spiegel , won the Golden Leopard at the 1997 Locarno Film Festival . The greatest success for him was winning the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2000 with the film The Circle . However, the film was banned by the Iranian regime and was not shown in Iran. 2003 received Crimson Gold - Blood Red Gold the top prize at the Valladolid International Film Festival and the Golden Prometheus at Tbilisi International Film Festival in 2004. His film Offside experienced at the Berlinale 2006 on 17 February 2006 its world premiere and won a day later a Silver Bears .

In February 2010, Panahi was to take part as the guest of honor at the 60th Berlinale as part of the World Cinema Fund Day in a discussion on the subject of "Iranian cinema: the present and the future, expectations inside and outside the country". Panahi was not allowed to leave his home country. He had previously appeared in Nader Davoodi's critical documentary Red, White & The Green , which was shown in the Panorama Documents series of the Berlinale and which reveals the hope of Iranian intellectuals, youth and women for political change.

Panahi supported the opposition movement Green Movement led by Mir Hossein Mousavi against President Mahmoud Ahmadineschād in the controversial Iranian presidential elections in 2009 .

According to information from the opposition, Panahi was arrested by the Iranian police at his home on March 1, 2010, along with his wife, daughter and other dissidents. Was also arrested Mohammad Rasoulof , with whom he repeatedly worked. Panahi was initially taken to Evin Prison without charge , where he was held for nearly three months. He went on a hunger strike , among other things because he wanted his own lawyer. Numerous international celebrities such as Michael Moore , Steven Spielberg , Robert Redford , Abbas Kiarostami campaigned for his release. Panahi was released on May 25, 2010, on bail of US $ 200,000, greatly emaciated by the time the criminal trial began. He was briefly imprisoned in summer 2009 after a memorial service for Neda Agha-Soltan .

The trial took place on December 20, 2010. Panahi was sentenced to 6 years in prison; At the same time, he was banned from working for 20 years and is not allowed to give interviews or travel abroad. According to his lawyer, Panahi has to go to jail for "propaganda against the system". Specifically, he is accused of wanting to prepare a film critical of the regime about the elections and the riots that followed.

Panahi had kept his place on the competition jury at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in his absence . The festival set an example to support Panahi's struggle for freedom. It should also be supported with film screenings and discussions. One of his films was shown in several sections. In solidarity with Jafar Panahi, who was prevented from leaving for the Berlinale 2011 by the religious regime of Iran , Die Tageszeitung (taz) appeared on February 11, 2011 in green, the color of the Iranian opposition movement. Until the end of the Berlinale, festival director Dieter Kosslick had believed that Panahi would still sit on his jury seat in the end. The award ceremony had to take place without him. The strong solidarity of Kosslick, however, led to worldwide reporting of the Panahis case.

At the beginning of May 2011, the festival management of the Cannes Film Festival announced the world premiere of Jafar Panahis and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's In Film Nist (English-language title: This is not a Film ). The 75-minute documentary shows a day in Panahi's life while he had to wait months for his conviction.

In October 2011, an Iranian appeals court upheld both the six-year prison sentence and the twenty-year professional and travel ban against Panahi. At the beginning of March 2012, Iran's ambassador to Germany, Ali Reza Sheikh Attar , declared that Panahi was on trial in the second instance at this time.

Panahi's film Pardé ran in the competition at the Berlinale 2013 .

In Taxi Tehran , Panahi's second latest film, he plays a taxi driver himself who drives through the streets of Tehran . The camera is inconspicuously attached to the dashboard of the car and is visibly panned by Panahi in individual scenes. Taxi Tehran was represented in the competition at the 65th Berlinale and won the Golden Bear there. Panahi had the film smuggled to Berlin.

Also Three Faces / Se Rokh from 2018 plays large part in the car. Panahi again stages himself as a driver: He accompanies the Iranian actress Behnaz Jafari (she also plays herself) to a village in northwestern Iran . From there, Jafari got the apparently real suicide video of a young woman. The duo set out to find out what really happened. The film won the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Best Screenplay.

Movies

  • Yarali Bashlar (1988, short documentary)
  • Kish (1991, documentary)
  • Doust (1992, short film)
  • Zire Darakhatan Zeyton ( Across the Olive Grove , 1994, assistant director)
  • Badkonake Sefid ( The White Balloon , 1995)
  • Ardekoul (1997, short documentary)
  • Ayneh ( The Mirror , 1997)
  • Dayereh ( The Circle , 2000)
  • Talaye Sorkh ( Crimson Gold , 2003)
  • Offside (2006)
  • Ākordeon ( The accordion , 2010, short film)
  • In Movie Nist ( This Ain't A Movie , 2011)
  • Pardé ( Closed Curtain , 2013)
  • Taxi Tehran ( Taxi , 2015)
  • Three faces ( Se Rokh , 2018)

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Jafar Panahi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Elterlein, Eberhard von: A film from Iran causes a sensation . In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 17, 2010, No. 47, p. 21
  2. ↑ cf. Berlinale: A people revolt. In: zeit.de, February 17, 2010 (accessed on February 19, 2010)
  3. ↑ a b c Six years imprisonment for "propaganda". ( Memento from December 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: tagesschau.de from December 21, 2010; Archive version ( Memento from December 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ cf. Review: artists in jail. In: ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente from March 28, 2010 (accessed on March 30, 2010)
  5. ^ Bert Rebhandl: Unfreier employee in: Der Standard from January 24, 2011. Accessed on June 3, 2011.
  6. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel : Iran: Filmmaker Jafar Panahi released on bail. May 25, 2010.
  7. ↑ cf. Al Jazeera : Iran targets reformist publications. March 2, 2010.
  8. ↑ Panahi sentenced to six years in prison. In: Spiegel Online from December 21, 2010.
  9. ^ The Guardian : Iran: Iran jails director Jafar Panahi and stops him making films for 20 years. December 20, 2010.
  10. ↑ Jafar Panahi has a place in the Berlinale jury. In: Focus from January 21, 2011.
  11. ↑ Berlinale supports Iranian filmmaker Panahi.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Welt Online from January 18, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.welt.de  
  12. ↑ Daily , February 11 2011th
  13. ↑ Sometimes a lot more can be achieved with humor. ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: zenithonline from February 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zenithonline.de
  14. ↑ cf. Official press release at festival-cannes.com, May 7, 2011 (accessed May 9, 2011).
  15. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Jail sentence for Jafar Panahi confirmed. October 15, 2011.
  16. ↑ 3sat , Kulturzeit, Maren Beuscher: Video: Interview with Ali Reza Sheikh Attar , March 1, 2012.
  17. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinale.de
  18. ↑ Dietmar Dath: The truth as a ride. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , e-paper from February 7, 2015, accessed on February 10, 2015.
  19. ↑ Oliver Kaever: In search of the modern. In: spiegel.de. SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH & Co. KG, December 26, 2018, accessed on January 10, 2019 .
  20. ↑ 3 faces. In: Festival de Cannes. Festival de Cannes, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Let this look free in: FAZ of May 23, 2012, page 31
  22. ↑ Program Filmfest Hamburg
  23. ↑ Sakharov Prize goes to Iranian activists. October 26, 2012, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  24. ^ Douglas Sirk Prize at the Hamburg Film Festival
personal data
SURNAME Panahi, Jafar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES جعفر پناهی (Persian); Ǧaʿfar Panāhī; Jafar Panahi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Mianeh , East Azerbaijan Province