Jafar Panahi's latest film 'It Was Just an Accident,' which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, will be released in theaters by Neon on Oct. 15.

Iran's Jafar Panahi has been tapped for the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award at the 30th Busan International Film Festival.

The Busan award follows Panahi’s historic Palme d’Or win at Cannes in May for 'It Was Just an Accident' and caps a career ...

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 ...

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been honoured with the title of the Asian filmmaker of the Year at the Busan International Film ...

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.

2025 is a surprisingly stacked year for thrillers, and with another five months to go, many of the year's most exciting ...

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

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 ...