Last year, while awaiting appeal, Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment.
Mr Panahi's strained relations with the authorities broke down after last June's disputed election.
The country's cultural tsars disliked the taboo-busting productions of Jafar Panahi but reluctantly allowed them onto the screen.
In 2011, the jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the award.
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Last year, Jafar Panahi, the fifty-one-year-old Iranian film director currently under house arrest in Tehran, invited a documentary-filmmaker friend, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, to come over.
Panahi, who also won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1995 for The White Balloon, was convicted in Iran of making propaganda against the ruling regime and jailed for six years.
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Costantini and Panahi have instilled the site with their film knowledge, and paved the way for the site's other major collaboration with masters of the vintage re-release, the Criterion Collection.
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Mr Panahi's arrest contributes to Iran's continuing cultural impoverishment.
While his case was on appeal, and he was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, Mr. Panahi and a documentarian friend shot "This Is Not a Film, " using a professional video camera and an iPhone.
What's more, one of Iran's most prominent and provocative filmmakers, Jafar Panahi, is currently in prison after the Iranian government sentenced him to six years of incarceration and a 20-year ban on any activities connected with making movies.
The entire movie is an expression of freedom, and, as you watch it, you sense it will lead to more trouble for both Panahi and his friend (and it did: Mirtahmasb was jailed for three months and is currently out on bail).
Enter Argentine millionaire, Eduardo Costantini of Costa Films, the company behind 2007 Berlinale winner "Elite Troop, " and Hengameh Panahi of Paris-based distributor Celluloid Dreams which represents films like Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet, " which won the Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival this year.
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To savor the full meaning of the title including its reference to the Magritte painting of a pipe called "This Is Not a Pipe" you need a sense of what Mr. Panahi, one of Iran's most distinguished filmmakers, has had to endure for the past several years.
This is not the way the Islamic Republic of Iran usually treats its filmmakers, and a timely corrective is now at hand in the form of a 75-minute film, provocatively titled "This Is Not a Film, " that depicts the dismaying plight of the writer-director Jafar Panahi.
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