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

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

Saboteurs cut the power on the festival’s final day, but it came on in time for Panahi’s electrifying win for “It Was Just an ...

Falling trees, condor men, and what was reportedly some actual, literal sabotage to the local power grid couldn’t stop it ...

Other winners included Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose It Was Just an Accident won the festival's top prize, ...

Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival went off largely without a hitch, despite ...

Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hasn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than ...

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

May 24 (UPI) -- Jafar Panahi's Un Simple Accident won the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Joachim Trier's ...

An Iranian thriller film that explores corruption and state violence in the country has won the the Palme d’Or, the coveted ...

Awards for actor and director went to Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'The Secret Agent,' while two films tied for the Jury Prize, ...

Director Jafar Panahi, winner of the Palme d'Or for the film 'It Was Just an Accident', poses for photographers at the awards ...