Much loose talk is bandied around in the film world about directors' bravery and the heroism of "guerrilla" film-making – but those terms genuinely mean something when applied to Iran's Jafar Panahi.
A powerful portrait of social tensions in modern Iran, the film managed to obtain government backing, although permission for its production was briefly removed when Farhadi voiced support for Jafar Panahi, the Iranian film-maker imprisoned in 2010 after allegedly plotting to undermine the regime.
It can go really well or really terribly when you start messing with Jafar.
When getting in touch with Jafar Alam, former chairman of the Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association, to get his side of the story, he abruptly hung up the phone.
Mr. Burton was a little less adept when another journalist asked about the directors Jafar Panahi, who's under arrest in Iran for his political views, and Roman Polanski, who remains under house arrest in Switzerland.
When I tried to get in touch with Jafar Alam, former chairman of the Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association, to get his side of the story, he abruptly hung up the phone.
Jafar and several other Central Park vendors said that when they need to run to the bathroom, usually several blocks from their pushcarts, they have to leave their carts unattended.
me, when i see this is who they've cast as Jafar in the live action "Aladdin" pic.twitter.com/OWV7cZNOYP.
"As of 4 p.m. today, we have returned to the operations command of the Tikrit offensive," Jafar Husseini, spokesman for the Hezbollah Brigades, said Monday when contacted by telephone in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
