Close portrait of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, grey-haired and smiling, in dark octagonal sunglasses against a pale blurred seafront.
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Jafar Panahi’s Triumphant Return: ‘A Simple Accident’ Shakes Cannes After 22-Year Hiatus

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Jafar Panahi returned to Cannes after 22 years with It Was Just an Accident, a film about a former political prisoner reckoning with his past.