Jafar Panahi did not know whether he would be allowed to leave Iran after a backlash against his Palme d’Or-winning film.

Filmed clandestinely, Jafar Panahi's A Simple Accident won the Palme d'Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. A symbolic award ...

Here’s all you need to know about It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi’s defiant thriller that won the 2025 Cannes Palme ...

Director Jafar Panahi poses for a portrait photograph for the film 'It Was Just an Accident' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Photo by ...

Cannes Film Festival, a poignant statement resonated: "Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves." This sentiment ...

Jafar Panahi has endured years of harassment from the Iranian authorities while creating a tremendous body of work. Here is ...

On the panel I served on, nobody used the letters “DEI” to justify decisions, though the administration would later claim ...

A Simple Accident, shot clandestinely, is an ebullient film of vital political significance. Set on the hills of Tehran, it ...

Legends’ review ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has spent his career turning barriers into creative inspiration. Working under travel bans, house arrests and periodic detention, he had made powerful films that show ...

More Cannes love came for 2011's This Is Not a Film (the Carrosse d'Or at the Director's Fortnight) and 2018's Three Faces ...