Marking an extraordinary reversal of fortune, including stints in prison and house arrest during years of clandestine work when he was forbidden by authorities from directing, Iran’s Jafar ...

Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The 64-year-old filmmaker received the top prize at the prestigious film festival for It Was Just an Accident, the drama movie ...

The president of the main jury Juliette Binoche announced that the top prize of the festival went to It Was Just an Accident, directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. (Also read ...

Jafar Panahi's films are banned in Iran — Miguel MEDINA Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who won the top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, is a twice-jailed arthouse cinema veteran whose ...

There was a Hollywood ending on the French Riviera on Saturday evening as Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was awarded the Palme d’Or, top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s the first time ...

The movie from the veteran Iranian director premiered in the Cannes Film Festival competition on Tuesday. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The film premiered in competition at Cannes on ...

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's thriller It Was Just An Accident has won the Palme D'Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. Panahi received a standing ovation as the annual French event ...

Somehow, electricity was restored just in time for a moment that those present will never forget: Jafar Panahi winning the Palme d’Or. The Iranian dissident director, who has been jailed twice ...

The highly political but wry film tells the tale of five ordinary Iranians confronted with a man they believed tortured them in jail "It Was Just an Accident" by Iran's Jafar Panahi won the ...

This year, the studio bought films at the festival — among them the taut, tart revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident,” from dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, and the anarchic ...

Neon has taken North American rights on revered Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi’s Cannes competition title “It Was Just an Accident,” which marks Panahi’s first film since being released from ...

CANNES, France (AP) — Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hadn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than 15 years. Panahi, one of the leading ...