The Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner Jafar Panahi has returned to Iran, where he was given a hero’s welcome. The Guardian newspaper reports that, two days after claiming the top prize at Cannes, ...

During filming, the authorities discovered “It Was Just an Accident.” But a French producer had been engaged to finish this ...

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Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi struck a chord with “It Was Just an Accident,” one of his most political movies, and his first film since being released from jail in Iran. The movie, which ...

His most recent movie, the Palme d'Or-winning 'It Was Just an Accident,' is only the latest of a 30-year career that's thrown ...

A scene from "It Was Just An Accidnet" A Film by Jafar Panahi (Credit: Courtesy of The Cannes Film Festival) Update: Jafar Panahi, director of the highly acclaimed Iranian film “It Was Just an ...

The winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, the Iranian director’s first film since his release from prison in 2023 is a blackly ...

Panahi had previously been banned from leaving Iran, spent multiple times in detention and been forced to make films underground, but chose to attend the Cannes Film Festival in person, 22 years after ...