Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi wins the Palme d'Or at Cannes
Somehow, electricity was restored just in time for a moment that those present will never forget: Jafar Panahi winning the Palme d'Or.
The Iranian dissident director, who has been jailed twice in his country and until April 2023 was serving a 20-year ban from traveling or making films, won for 'It Was Just An Accident' — a riveting political thriller in which a group of former prisoners kidnap and confront the guard who tortured them. But do they have the right guy? Panahi, freed after serving 14 years of that ban, still made the film in secret to avoid his government's required script approval and other rules, like requiring all the women in the film to wear hijabs.
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