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This March, Jafar Panahi could win his first Oscar. But the decorated Iranian filmmaker—whose masterful It Was Just an Accident has already won numerous awards this season—is struggling to celebrate his success amid the ongoing unrest in his home country.
“I cannot think straight,” Panahi says in a Zoom call from Paris, translated by his interpreter Sheida Dayani. “I am in the process of a very heavy mourning because of what has happened in my country. I am in shock, like all the…
