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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a dramatic and emotional close to the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Iranian director Jafar Panahi was awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or for his powerful revenge thriller It Was Just an Accident.

The 64-year-old is a symbol of artistic defiance who repeatedly challenges his country's strict censorship laws to produce movies about Iran's social and cultural struggles. His latest production ...

"There is only one single story," said Gross. It goes that Rabbi Isaac led 90,000 Jews to meet Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Islamic caliph and a relation of the Prophet Mohammed, who is also revered ...