Jafar Panahi’s ' It Was Just an Accident ' emerged as the most politically urgent and emotionally devastating entry, earning ...

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 ...

Panahi received the 2025 Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also the focus of the 2025 Sydney ...

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

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

A Simple Accident, directed by Iran’s politically defiant Jafar Panahi, was known only by a code name in Luxembourg funding ...

Truck drivers in Iran have blocked roads and ports as part of their strike protesting low salaries, high insurance rates, and ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi backed week-long nationwide strikes by truckers Wednesday as a "loud call" to the authorities, ...

The Iranian director’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, “It Was Just an Accident,” set the tone for a festival defined by dramas ...

Jafar Panahi has returned to cheers in Tehran as his Palme d'Or victory prompts a diplomatic spat between France and Iran.

The film's win has given rise to a diplomatic row between French and Iranian officials, after French Foreign Minister ...