Jafar Panahi Cannes

Jafar Panahi | The auteur of dissent

Newz BabaJune 1, 2025June 1, 202507 mins

There’s a scene within the 2015 film Taxi Tehran the place a vendor of counterfeited international film CDs use a taxi, pushed by the director of the film enjoying himself, to make a sale. Whereas mainstream administrators rue counterfeits, Jafar Panahi observes the transaction with an expression of sorrow and understanding. The Iranian director, who…

Cannes 2025: Jafar Panahi returns after twenty years, receives 10-minute standing ovation for ‘It Was Simply an Accident’

Newz BabaMay 21, 2025May 21, 202504 mins

Delnaz Najafi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Solmaz Panahi, Jafar Panahi, Tahereh Saeedi, Maryam Afsharimovahed, Ebrahim Azizi and Vahid Mobasseri depart the ‘It Was Simply an Accident’ pink carpet on the 78th annual Cannes Movie Pageant at Palais des Festivals | Picture Credit score: Getty Pictures Jafar Panahi’s It Was Simply an Accident premiered to a…