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Jafar Panahi’s Cannes winner “It Was Just an Accident” will be released in theaters this fall. Neon has dated the movie for theatrical release on October 15. Neon acquired North American rights to the ...

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Director Jafar Panahi poses for a portrait photograph for the film 'It Was Just an Accident' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

This year’s opening film was Jafar Panahi’s new film “It Was Just an Accident,” which won the top prize, the Palme d’Or, at ...

Take heed: Jafar Panahi is no longer the filmmaker he once was, transforming from understated humanist (in films such as "The White Balloon" and "Offside") to openly critical of the Iranian regime ...

Panahi does not let Jafar off the hook. “No Bears” is a film about the self, made without a hint of self-pity. The narrative finds Jafar directing a film in secret, ...

Jafar Panahi was born in 1960 in a poor area in south Tehran, one of eight children. "My dad was living in a very crowded house during his childhood," Panah says, but he "fell in love with cinema ...

Palme d'Or winner Jafar Panahi and the Oscar-nominated Mohammad Rasoulof signed an open letter in France's Le Monde, calling on Iran to end uranium enrichment and for the killing on both sides to stop ...

Director Jafar Panahi poses for a portrait photograph for the film 'It Was Just an Accident' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

Take heed: Jafar Panahi is no longer the filmmaker he once was, transforming from understated humanist (in films such as “The White Balloon” and “Offside”) to open critic of the Iranian ...