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Jafar Panahi has reportedly left Iran for the first time in 14 years - here pictured at the Berlin Film Festival

Video. Filmmaker Jafar Panahi has left Iran for the first time in 14 years

Updated: 26/04/2023 - 20:04 GMT+2

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has spent most of his filmmaking career in the crosshairs of Iran’s authoritarian government, has left the country following his release from Evin Prison.

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