Born in Mianeh, Iran, in 1960, Panahi was an assistant to Abbas Kiarostami before making his own films about the lives of ordinary Iranians, especially women and children. In 2010 he was banned from filmmaking and sentenced by the Iranian authorities, but he kept making films in secret. He won the Golden Lion for The Circle, the Golden Bear for Taxi and the Palme d'Or for It Was Just an Accident.
Filmography
- The White Balloon (1995)
- The Mirror (1997)
- The Circle (2000)
- Crimson Gold (2003)
- Offside (2006)
- This Is Not a Film (2011)
- Closed Curtain (2013)
- Taxi (2015)
- 3 Faces (2018)
- No Bears (2022)
- It Was Just an Accident (2025)