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‘It Was Just An Accident’ Director Jafar Panahi On The Real-Life Torture And Oppression Behind The Film: “We Still Have Been Able To Find A Way”

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EXCLUSIVE: Jafar Panahi, director of Palme d’Or winner and France’s powerful official entry for the International Oscar, It Was Just an Accident, grins when we meet on Zoom. I tell him his smile reminds me of when I offered him congratulations at the Cannes closing night soirée not long after he’d been feted by the likes […]

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Thirty years after winning the Caméra d'Or there for Le Ballon blanc, his first feature film, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at the last Cannes Film Festival thanks to A Simple Accident, a film inspired by his second stay in prison. La Presse met him at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Future of the Force broke the news in on Thursday, October 23, 2025.
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