formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
The director, who in 2025 won Cannes’ Palme d’Or for ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ was sentenced to one year in prison in absentia early December. Source: Jafar Panahi’s Prison Sentence Appeal Sets Hearing Date in Iran
Asghar Farhadi remembered the filmmaker and playwright, who died due to complications from cancer, as his “great teacher.” Source: Bahram Beyzaie Dead: Iranian Bashu the Little Stranger Director Was 87
Acclaimed Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri has died in northern Israel, ending a five-decade career that established him as one of the most influential voices in Palestinian cinema. Source: Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri dies at 72 | … Continued
Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies and American action flicks. Now, it is no more. Source: Afghanistan’s historic Ariana Cinema torn … Continued
A renowned Kabul cinema that for decades attracted the city’s film fans is being demolished to make way for a shopping mall. Source: Afghanistan’s historic Ariana cinema torn down by Taliban – in pictures | Afghanistan | The Guardian
The debut feature plays in competition at Red Sea International Film Festival. Source: ‘Sink’ director Zain Duraie talks tackling mental health issues in Arab cinema | Features | Screen