The rebel Iranian filmmaker recasts the need for revenge through a darkly comic lens in his Palme d’Or-winning latest.

“I’m not that brave,” the Iranian director Jafar Panahi told Film Comment in an interview earlier this year. “I’m just doing my job. I’m making my films…. I feel a bit embarrassed when this is seen as ...

Iranian again flouts his movie-making ban in the most imaginative manner with darkly humorous political satire ...

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for his revenge thriller "It Was Just an Accident,″ handing the festival's top prize to a director ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2025 for It Was Just an Accident , has been sentenced to one year in prison in Iran in absentia, ...