Filmed clandestinely, Jafar Panahi's A Simple Accident won the Palme d'Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. A symbolic award ...

Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hasn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than 15 years.

Awards for actor and director went to Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 'The Secret Agent,' while two films tied for the Jury Prize, ...

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 ...

Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival went off largely without a hitch, despite ...

Supporters turned out to greet the Iranian filmmaker when he flew into Tehran following his Cannes Film Festival win.

Saboteurs cut the power on the festival’s final day, but it came on in time for Panahi’s electrifying win for “It Was Just an ...

Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival closed with its most political moment, as ...

Earlier Mubi releases include Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, which bowed in Cannes last year, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle and ...

Neon, which acquired the new film from the dissident Iranian director for North America a few days ago, has picked the Palme ...

Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” a Death and the Maiden –like drama about a group of Iranians confronting a man whom ...