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FILM DIRECTOR

Jafar Panahi

1960 - Today

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Jafar Panâhi (Persian: جعفر پناهی, [d͡ʒæˈfæɾ pæˈnɒːhiː]; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature film debut, The White Balloon (1995). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jafar Panahi has received more than 744,169 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Jafar Panahi is the 437th most popular film director (up from 462nd in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Iran (down from 208th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iranian Film Director.

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  • 740k

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  • 54.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jafar Panahi ranks 437 out of 1,581Before him are Alexander Sokurov, Curtis Hanson, Edward Yang, Jacques Doillon, Yoshiyuki Tomino, and Valerio Zurlini. After him are Robert Rossen, Luis García Berlanga, Segundo de Chomón, René Laloux, J. Lee Thompson, and Assi Dayan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Jafar Panahi ranks 93Before him are Damon Wayans, Yannick Noah, Jonas Gahr Støre, Walter Zenga, Vince Clarke, and Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. After him are Takashi Miike, Temuera Morrison, Susanne Bier, Jennifer Rush, Laurent Fignon, and Stefano Casiraghi.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Jafar Panahi ranks 211 out of 528Before him are Azarmidokht (null), Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), Hossein Nasr (1933), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), and Nima Yooshij (1897). After him are Ibn Khuzayma (838), Gotarzes I (-200), Amir Kabir (1807), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Ahmad Shamlou (1925), and Ibn al-Faqih (null).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Iran

Among film directors born in Iran, Jafar Panahi ranks 3Before him are Abbas Kiarostami (1940) and Barbet Schroeder (1941). After him are Asghar Farhadi (1972), Shirin Neshat (1957), Majid Majidi (1959), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Dariush Mehrjui (1939), Bahman Ghobadi (1969), Hossein Shahabi (1967), and Samira Makhmalbaf (1980).

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