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Neon Releases Jafar Panahi’s 2021 Short ‘Life’ Online As Awards Season Heats Up

EXCLUSIVE: Neon has released Jafar Panahi’s 2021 short film Life online, giving audiences free access to the work as a standalone piece for the first time. The short film was originally part of the Covid-19 pandemic themed anthology work The Year of the Everlasting Storm, also featuring contributions by Anthony Chen, David Lowery, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, Malik Vitthal and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. With wry humor and warmth, Panahi’s segment gave insight into his life at home in Tehran during the lockdown with his family, with his mother and pet iguana Iggy stealing the show.

Neon Releases Jafar Panahi’s 2021 Short ‘Life’ Online

Neon Releases Jafar Panahi’s 2021 Short ‘Life’ Online

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Key Highlights

  • Related Stories Trailers 'EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert' Teaser: Baz Luhrmann Locks In Rare Footage Of The King's Vegas Era Commentary Golden Globes Analysis: Arthouse Rules As Subtitled International Films Crash Party; Plus Voters Rubber-Stamp The Emmys The online release of Life will also highlight a segment from Panahi’s public conversation with Martin Scorsese during the 63rd New York Film Festival in October, where his It Was Just An Accident played in the Main Slate section.
  • Watch on Deadline Panahi is currently in the thick of the awards season race as a frontrunner with Cannes 2025 Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident.
  • The film was nominated for four Golden Globes this week including Best Film Drama, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature, as well as for Best Foreign Language Film from Critics Choice Awards.
  • Recent awards include a special award from AFI; Best Director from NYFCC; Best Original Screenplay from LAFCA; and Best Film and Director from Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
  • Additional nominations include Best Film, Director, and Screenwriter at the European Film Awards, Best International Coproduction at France’s Lumière Awards, and Best International Film at the British Independent Film Awards.
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