Why is Jaafar Panhi's new verdict the document of victory for Iran's underground cinema? Event 24 reports; More important than Jaafar Panhi's individual behavior is the numerous and consecutive orders given to him, which show that the political system recognized Iran's underground cinema willingly or unwillingly. Jaafar Panhi is the strangest filmmaker of Iranian cinema; The filmmaker, who has three cases in the court system, received in recent days a sentence of five years and one month in prison and the confiscation of all movable and immovable property for only one of his cases, and this spring, for another case due to his propaganda activity against the regime, a sentence of one year of penal labor was added to his sentence. But he never agreed to leave Iran. Click for more details.

Why is Jaafar Panhi's new verdict the document of victory for Iran's underground cinema? Event 24 reports; More important than Jaafar Panhi's individual behavior is the numerous and consecutive orders given to him, which show that the political system recognized Iran's underground cinema willingly or unwillingly. Jaafar Panhi is the strangest filmmaker of Iranian cinema; The filmmaker, who has three cases in the court system, received in recent days a sentence of five years and one month in prison and the confiscation of all movable and immovable property for only one of his cases, and this spring, for another case due to his propaganda activity against the regime, a sentence of one year of penal labor was added to his sentence. But he never agreed to leave Iran. Click for more details.