AFP -Iran on Monday protested against the awarding of a Silver Bear to Jafar Panahi for the best screenplay for Parde (Closed Curtain) at the 63rd Berlin film festival, the ISNA news agency reported. The award went on Saturday to the dissident director and his long-time collaborator Kambuzia Partovi, for a film made secretly in defiance of a ban by ...

Iranian film "Closed Curtain," shot by director Jafar Panahi while under house arrest in Tehran, picked up the Silver Bear for best screenplay at this years Berlin Film festival, which closed up shop on Saturday. Panahi, who previously won prizes of the Cannes, Venice of Berlin festivals, was arrested in March 2010 and sentenced for engaging ...