Jafar Panahi
International Jury 2004
Filmography:
1988: The Wounded Heads (short doc)
1991: Kish (doc)
1992: The Last Exam
1995: The White Balloon
1997: The Mirror
2000: The Circle
2003: Crimson Gold
2006: Offside
2011: This is not a film
2013: Closed Curtain
2015: Taxi
2018: 3 Faces
Selection & Presence:
Jafar Panahi was born in 1960 in Mianeh, Iran. He studied cinema in Tehran. He directed several short and long features for Iranian television. He assisted Abbas Kiarostami on Through the Olive trees. He won the Caméra d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival for White Balloon and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Circle (2000).
He was Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema's head of the International Jury in 2004 and received a Honorary Award in 2010.