

It isn’t uncommon for states to retaliate against the filmmakers who insult them. Sergei Parajanov was imprisoned for daring to make poetic cinema in the era of Soviet Realism. Jafar Panahi’s twenty-year ban from filmmaking and six-year prison sentence have become the central theme of the very films
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
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