Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi's latest picture defying an official ban, "Taxi", captured the Golden Bear top prize at the Berlin film festival Saturday, marking a further success from the shadows. The 54-year-old's work is celebrated in the world's arthouses but outlawed in Iran where the regime considers his gritty, socially critical productions to be subversive. He was detained for a documentary he tried to make on the unrest following Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election and officially banned from making more films for 20 years for "acting against national security and propaganda against the regime".
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