{"id":567,"date":"2025-12-05T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:53:00","slug":"jafar-panahi-if-i-hadnt-gone-to-prison-i-wouldnt-have-made-this-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Jafar Panahi: \u201cIf I Hadn\u2019t Gone to Prison, I Wouldn\u2019t Have Made This Film\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16828\/jafar-panahi-interview-it-was-just-an-accident?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=jafar-panahi-if-i-hadn-t-gone-to-prison-i-wouldn-t-have-made-this-film\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467507.jpg\" alt=\"ItWasJustAnAccident_Still_\u00a9LesFilmsPelleas_01\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even shrunk down on a tiny Zoom display, it is difficult not to be slightly in awe of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/14350\/a-guide-to-the-rebellious-political-cinema-of-jafar-panahi\"><strong>Jafar Panahi<\/strong><\/a>. Probably the world\u2019s most famous dissident filmmaker, he is also one of Iran\u2019s most prolific \u2013 this despite a 20-year filmmaking ban, during which he has made six feature films in secret. One of them, 2011\u2019s meta-documentary This Is Not a Film, was smuggled out of Iran on a USBhellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16828\/jafar-panahi-interview-it-was-just-an-accident?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=jafar-panahi-if-i-hadn-t-gone-to-prison-i-wouldn-t-have-made-this-film\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even shrunk down on a tiny Zoom display, it is difficult not to be slightly in awe of Jafar Panahi. Probably the world\u2019s most famous dissident filmmaker, he is also one of Iran\u2019s most prolific \u2013 this despite a 20-year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}