|
Search By:
|
Iran |
|
||
|
1991-2011 |
||||
| 1991 | ||||
|
Other Films of Note |
||||
|
|
||||
|
And Life Goes On… (Abbas Kiarostami) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1992 | ||||
|
Other Films of Note |
||||
|
The Jar (Ebrahim Fourouzesh) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
|
|
||||
|
Once Upon a Time, Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 1997 | ||||
|
Other Films of Note |
||||
|
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami) [MORE] [ADD] |
||||
| 2004 | ||||
| 16/1 - |
Jafar Panahi Talaye sorkh (Crimson Gold), which shows a botched heist before flashing back to outline the events leading up to it, is released in the United States. Hossain Emadeddin and Kamyar Sheisi star. [MORE] [ADD] |
|||
| 2007 | ||||
| 21/3 - | Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad obliquely criticises Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300 in a speech when he accuses Western powers of ‘trying to tamper with history by making a film and by making Iran's image look savage.’ [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 2008 | ||||
| 12/2 - |
Sources within Iran claim that the country’s ministry of culture is encouraging filmmakers and technicians to work in the TV industry so that it has greater control over censorship of content. [MORE] |
|||
|
|
||||
| 7/7 - |
The producers of Assassination of a Pharaoh, a film about the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981, come under fire from the slain leader’s family, who threaten to sue for defamation, and cools hopes of an easing of tensions between the two countries. [MORE] |
|||
| 2009 | ||||
| 9/6 - | Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, whose film No One Knows About the Persian Cats opened the Un Certain Regard section of this year's Cannes Film Festival, is released from prison after being arrested for 'passing secret information' following his return from the festival. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 30/7 - |
Directors Mahnaz Mohammadi and Jafar Panahi are arrested at a cemetery near Tehran as they try to lay flowers at the grave of Nedha Agha Soltan, the 27-year-old music student whose death on 20th June during protests over the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was viewed by millions on the internet. [MORE] |
|||
| 1/9 - |
Masoud Jafari Jozani begins work on In the Wind’s Eye, the first Iranian film to be shot in the United States since the Islamic revolution. The film, which is based on a mammoth 52-hour Iranian TV series, spans six decades as it follows three generations of Iranians. [MORE] [ADD] |
|||
| 10/11 - |
Actor Mohammad Reza Golzar’s payment of £55,000 for three days work on the film Democracy in Bright Daylight prompts threats of a tax crackdown in the country. [MORE] |
|||
| 2010 | ||||
| 16/2 - |
Award-winning director Jafar Panahi is refused permission to leave the country to attend the Berlin Film Festival as an honorary guest. [MORE] |
|||
| 1/3 - |
Jafar Panahi and his wife and daughter are arrested by government security forces after they raid his house. Fifteen guests who were in the house at the time are also detained. [MORE] |
|||
| 9/3 - | Celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami publishes a letter in a Tehran newspaper calling for the release of detained directors Jafar Panahi and Mahmoud Rasoulof. [MORE] | |||
| 19/5 - |
The International Campaign for Human Rights reports that director Jafar Panahi, imprisoned for his support of Iran’s opposition party, has embarked on a hunger strike to demand access to his family and a lawyer, and unconditional release until his trial. [MORE] |
|||
| 25/5 - |
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been imprisoned since 1st March 2010, is released on bail reportedly set at $200,000. [MORE] |
|||
| 29/5 - |
Tehran censors ban Certified Copy, director Abbas Kiarostami’s new film, due to star Juliette Binoche’s ‘attire.’ Both Kiarostami and Binoche were outspoken in their condemnation of the Iranian authorities for imprisoning director Jafar Panahi during the recent Cannes Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
|||
| 28/9 - |
Director Asqar Farhadi denounces the government’s decision to block production of his latest film, Separation of Nader and Simin, due to alleged remarks he made during a ceremony at the Cinema House in Tehran. [MORE] [ADD] |
|||
| 20/12 - | Director Jafar Panahi is sentenced to six years imprisonment for conspiring against the ruling system and banned from directing or producing films for the next twenty years. Fellow filmmaker Mohammad Rasulov receives the same prison sentence. [ADD] | |||
| 2011 | ||||
| 26/6 - |
34-year-old documentary filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi is arrested at her home in Tehran. [ADD] |
|||
| 5/9 - | Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, the co-director of This is Not a Film with Jafar Panahi, has his passport confiscated when he tries to leave the country to attend the Toronto International Film Festival to promote the film. [ADD] | |||
| 10/10 - |
Actress Marzieh Vafamehr is reportedly sentenced to one year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in My Tehran for Sale, a film about the creative restrictions placed on artists in the country. [ADD] |
|||
| 28/10 - | Marzieh Vafamehr is released from prison after serving 30 days of a 90 day sentence for appearing in My Tehran for Sale. The 90 lashes that were also imposed are cancelled following international outrage at the punishment. [ADD] | |||