The director is in town to attend Sunday’s Ee BAFTA Film Awards where his latest picture, It Was Just An Accident, is nominated in BAFTA’s Film Not in the English language category.
Through interpreter Iante Roach, Panahi explained that “unfortunately the [U.K.] government wouldn’t give me a visa. One of the many excuses that they employed was that I spent time behind bars, and I never really understood what they meant.” (Panahi has been in prison twice in Iran on the dubious charges of anti-government propaganda.)
He was speaking at a reception hosted by Mubi at Soho House on Dean Street in London for BAFTA voters.
Jafar Panahi at the Mubi-hosted BAFTA reception for It Was Just An Accident (Baz Bamigboye…
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