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The Iranian director walked away with top honors on Saturday, concluding a festival spiked with discord and littered with ...
"It Was Just an Accident," by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was barred from filmmaking for 15 years, won the Palme d'Or ...
Neon, which acquired the new film from the dissident Iranian director for North America a few days ago, has picked the Palme ...
Falling trees, condor men, and what was reportedly some actual, literal sabotage to the local power grid couldn’t stop it ...
Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hasn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than ...
Somehow, electricity was restored just in time for a moment that those present will never forget: Jafar Panahi winning the ...
Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival went off largely without a hitch, despite ...
Two years after he went on hunger strike in an Iranian prison, he’s returned with one of the year’s best movies.
The jury, headed by Juliette Binoche, awarded two awards to The Secret Agent: Best Actor for Wagner Moura and Best Director ...
Iranian directors Jafar Panahi and Saeed Roustayee are both in Cannes in what amounts to a banner year for Iran on the ...
Awards for actor and director went to Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'The Secret Agent,' while two films tied for the Jury Prize, ...
An Iranian thriller film that explores corruption and state violence in the country has won the the Palme d’Or, the coveted ...