Jafar Panahi

Movies by and about Iranian women took center stage at the Sundance film festival this weekend, as diaspora filmmakers reflected on female-led protests and the deadly challenges of censorship and resistance in their ancestral home.

The Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) will delight film lovers for the 33rd time between 9 and 20 November, this time with 90 feature-length and some 30 short films.

Award-winning dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi was arrested Monday, the third director to be detained in less than a week, the Mehr news agency said.

Panahi, 62, has won a slew of awards at international festivals for films that have critiqued modern Iran, including the top prize in Berlin for "Taxi" in 2015, and best screenplay at Cannes for his film "Three Faces" in 2018.

Iran has awarded three Iranian and two Turkish scientists a top prize in a ceremony held on Nov. 11.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film "Three Faces" has won the Best Film award at the 55th International Antalya Film Festival.

The new film by Iran's Jafar Panahi, who is banned from leaving Iran, has premiered to a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival, with a seat left symbolically empty for the dissident director.

The Free Zone Film Festival, one of the most popular movie events in the country, will take place in Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad from November 5 to 10.

Films included in this year's festival programme will be screened in eight cinemas across the country.

The Sparkasse Leipzig Media Foundation has awarded Turkish journalist Nedim ?ener and Iranian director Jafar Panahi with the Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media 2015.

The eighth annual Subversive Festival started on Sunday in Zagreb under the banner "Spaces of Emancipation: Micropolitics and Revolts".

Combining film screenings, debates, round tables and interviews, the 14-day festival is running in cinemas and faculties in the capital.

Jafar Panahi, the Iranian dissident director who is banned from making films by the Iranian state has won this year's Berlinale Golden Bear for his film "Taxi."

In his film, that was described as a masterpiece by the critics, the Iranian director stars as a taxi driver engaging his passengers in dialogue as he drives them through the streets of Tehran.