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MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Acclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi said on Thursday he plans to return home after touring with his new film, “It Was Just an Accident,” and that he has never ...

He won best director, original screenplay and international feature for “It Was Just an Accident.” Best feature went to “One Battle After Another.” By Kyle Buchanan “One Battle After Another” was ...

Imprisoned and censored by his home country of Iran, the legendary director discusses his furtive filmmaking. Jafar Panahi at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. It’s just after 1 am in ...

Oscar-bound filmmaker Jafar Panahi has reportedly been sentenced to prison by Iranian officials. The It Was Just an Accident director is widely expected to score major Oscar nominations. The 2026 ...

“It Was Just an Accident” filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to one year in prison in Iran. In addition to the prison sentence in abstentia, the Palme d’Or winner was hit with a two-year travel ...

More than seven months after acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his latest film, It Was Just an Accident, and one day after Panahi’s U.S. tour ...

Exclusive: Stops on the Neon-led tour for "It Was Just an Accident" include New York, L.A., Boston, Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco. Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who is now able to ...

In 2010, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested by his government and accused of making propaganda films critiquing the regime. In prison, Panahi wrote letters detailing mistreatment and abuse, ...

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For more than a decade, after the government of Iran deemed his work “propaganda against the system,” the filmmaker Jafar Panahi was banned from making films or leaving the country. He spent some of ...