The price to be paid for making films in Iran
Celebrated Iranian film director Jafar Panahi talks to Index about his latest film It was Just an Accident – released in UK cinemas from 5 December – and explains why despite being imprisoned and censored, he won’t stop making movies in his home country
The price to be paid for making films in Iran
Celebrated Iranian film director Jafar Panahi talks to Index about his latest film It was Just an Accident – released in UK cinemas from 5 December – and explains why despite being imprisoned and censored, he won’t stop making movies in his home country
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Volume 54, issue 4: Winter 2025
Gen Z is revolting: Why the world's youth will not be silenced
Zoomers – young people born between 1997 and 2012 – took to the streets last summer. They didn't have a common ideology but they were angry about the state of world and felt hopeless for the future.
They are digital natives to their fingertips, theoretically able to exercise freedom – at least online – on a scale previous generations could only dream of. And yet many are afraid to say what they really think in public forums.