# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jafar-panahi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:23:58.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jafar-panahi"
name: "Jafar Panahi"
slug: "jafar-panahi"
description: "Jafar Panâhi is an Iranian filmmaker and actor. He is known internationally for his artistic contributions to post-1979 Revolution Iranian cinema, and he has been associated with the Iranian New Wave. His work, rooted in neorealism and centered on the lives of women, children, and the marginalized, constitutes a critical portrait of the social, political, and gendered structures of contemporary Iran."
tagline: "Iranian film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jafar_cannes_2025_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1960-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.431036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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  - platform:  "IMDB"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump