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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dissident Iranian director, no longer under a travel ban from Tehran, returned to Cannes for the first time in two decades to present the competition film 'It Was Just An Accident.' By Scott ...

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 ...

Thirty years after he won the Caméra d’Or for the best first film at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival for “The White Balloon,” a new film from Iranian director Jafar Panahi is back on the ...

CANNES, France, May 20 (Reuters) - Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was barred from travelling by the government in Tehran for 15 years, appeared on the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet on ...

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 ...