In her interview with Jafar Panahi, Shiva Rahbaran explores the filmmaker’s image of himself as an engagé film-maker – an artist who has a moral and social commitment, yet distances himself from all ideological and political propaganda. In Panahi’s eyes, the cinema in Iran – both before and after the Revolution of 1979 – has always been a kind of resistance against ruling dogmas. He believes his only commitment to be the depiction of social and historical reality as he ‘feels’ it.
An Interview with Jafar Panahi
