Jafar Panahi has returned to cheers in Tehran as his Palme d'Or victory prompts a diplomatic spat between France and Iran.

The Iranian director walked away with top honors on Saturday, concluding a festival spiked with discord and littered with ...

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

"It Was Just an Accident," by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was barred from filmmaking for 15 years, won the Palme d'Or ...

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

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident” has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes ...

The film, “Un Simple Accident,” was directed by Jafar Panahi, a longtime festival favorite. The award capped a contest that ...

It Was Just An Accident' will be distributed by Neon. This win also marks the distributor's sixth Palme d'Or in a row.

On Saturday morning, Cannes experienced a high power outage on the final day of the festival, with police suspecting foul ...

Iran has summoned France’s representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film ...

Call them a barometer, clairvoyant, or just god damn shrewd when it comes to choosing award-winning movies, but NEON has just ...

A Simple Accident, directed by Iran’s politically defiant Jafar Panahi, was known only by a code name in Luxembourg funding ...