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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost as soon as Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi scooped the Palme d’Or, the questions began to swirl: would his ...

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