{"id":606136,"date":"2026-04-15T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:23:08","slug":"jafar-panahi-is-on-the-2026-time100-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606136\/","title":{"rendered":"Jafar Panahi Is on the 2026 TIME100 List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cI\u2019m going to go to prison for a year, and I\u2019ll\u202fcome out with a new script.\u201d Before his recent return to his homeland, iconic Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi understood the risks. He has spent decades turning <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7338618\/iran-war-with-people-government-protests\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">censorship<\/a> into cinematic resistance, using his craft to pull back the curtain on the realities of life in Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">At a time when, even before the perils of war, thousands of Iranians were killed for demanding liberty, his work meets the moment with honesty and urgency. Although previously imprisoned for his art, he continues to create.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">His latest film, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/03\/13\/iran-oscar-it-was-just-an-accident\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">It Was Just an Accident<\/a>\u2014which he shot secretly in Iran\u2014lays bare the political trauma of a nation enduring decades of repression, where justice has yet to arrive. For this, he received the Palme d\u2019Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and two Academy Award nominations. Predictably, the regime had imposed a one-year prison sentence in absentia, alongside sweeping restrictions on his life and work. And still, he persists. Through unvarnished and deeply human storytelling, Jafar reminds us that art, at its most powerful, is an act of freedom.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Boniadi is an actor, producer, and activist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m going to go to prison for a year, and I\u2019ll\u202fcome out with a new script.\u201d Before his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[43604,49,48,361,75,14275,3704,228845],"class_list":{"0":"post-606136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-franchise","14":"tag-list","15":"tag-time-100-topic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}