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Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Wins Top Honor at Cannes Film Festival

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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for his film "It Was Just an Accident", a revenge drama inspired by his own experience in jail. Panahi, who was recently released from prison after 22 years, was present at the festival to accept the award. The film follows a character who is wrongly accused of a crime and must seek revenge against those who wronged them. The film's director, Dardenne brothers, also won the Best Screenplay award for their film "Young Mothers". The Cannes Film Festival's 78th edition featured a political and engaged lineup, with several films addressing themes of oppression and resistance.

  1. FR
    Juliette Binoche
    1. Art mobilises the creative energy of the most precious, most alive part of us. A force that transforms darkness into forgiveness, hope and new life.
  2. IR
    Jafar Panahi
    1. I remember just before I was given this very heavy sentence of 20 years, banned from making films and from traveling, and I thought: 'What will I do now?' For a little while, I was really upset.
    2. I'm completely incapable of adjusting to another society.
    3. At 2 a.m., I can call a colleague and say: 'That shot should be longer.' And he'll come join me and we'll work all night. In Europe, you can't work like this. I don't belong.
    4. But people who know me know I can't change a lightbulb. I don't know how to do anything except make films.
    5. As soon as I finish my work here, I will go back to Iran the next day. And I will ask myself: 'What's my next film going to be?'
    6. During my 20-year ban, even my closest friends had given up hope that I would ever make films again.
    7. In a way, I'm not the one who made this film. It's the Islamic Republic that made this film, because they put me in prison. Maybe if they want to stop us being so subversive, they should stop putting us in jail.
    8. All these characters that you see in this film were inspired by conversations that I had in prison, by stories people told me about the violence and the brutality of the Iranian government, violence that has been ongoing for more than four decades now.
    9. In my definition, a political filmmaker defends an ideology where the good follow it and the bad oppose it.
    10. No one should tell us what kind of clothes we should wear, or what we should or shouldn't do.
    11. Let's set aside all problems, all differences. What matters most right now is our country and the freedom of our country.

Cannes Film Festival

  1. Iranian Director Brings Hope and Message to Cannes with Debut Film
  2. Iranian Filmmaker Fledges to Europe Ahead of Cannes Premiere Following Prison Sentence

sources

  1. 1.France 24
  2. 2.CTV News
  3. 3.DW News
  4. 4.Al Jazeera

perspectives

  1. 1.Iran Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Authoritarianism
  3. 3.Freedom of Speech
  4. 4.Cinema
  5. 5.Cinema Festivals

countries

  1. 1.Iran, Islamic Republic ofIR
  2. 2.Palestine, State ofPS
  3. 3.BrazilBR
  4. 4.IraqIQ
  5. 5.BelgiumBE
  6. 6.GermanyDE
  7. 7.NorwayNO
  8. 8.FranceFR
  9. 9.IsraelIL
  10. 10.MoroccoMA
  11. 11.Russian FederationRU
  12. 12.UkraineUA

organizations

  1. 1.Cannes Film Festival
  2. 2.Films Boutique
  3. 3.Parallel45
  4. 4.Film and Television Institute of India
  5. 5.YouTube

persons

  1. 1.Jafar PanahiIR
  2. 2.Juliette BinocheFR
  3. 3.Nadia Melliti
  4. 4.Hafsia Herzi
  5. 5.Hasan Hadi
  6. 6.Mascha Schilinski
  7. 7.Miguel Gomes
  8. 8.Vahid Mobasseri
  9. 9.Wagner Moura
  10. 10.Donald TrumpUS
  11. 11.Elle Fanning
  12. 12.Fatma HassonaPS

technicals

  1. 1.Palme d'Or
  2. 2.Titane
  3. 3.Grand Prix
  4. 4.Little Sister
  5. 5.Put Your Soul on Your Hand
  6. 6.Secret Agent
  7. 7.Best Actress
  8. 8.Best Screenplay
  9. 9.Palais des Festivals et des Congres
  10. 10.Sound of Falling
  11. 11.Bacurau
  12. 12.Berlinale