Why a Cannes-winning Iranian filmmaker had to make his new film in hiding
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, long persecuted for his unflinching portrayals of life under repression, returns with It Was Just an Accident, a gripping moral thriller born from his own time in Evin Prison. Secretly filmed despite surveillance, the Cannes Palme d’Or winner cements Panahi’s legacy as cinema’s most resilient dissident, turning confinement itself into fearless art.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, long persecuted for his unflinching portrayals of life under repression, returns with It Was Just an Accident, a gripping moral thriller born from his own time in Evin Prison. Secretly filmed despite surveillance, the Cannes Palme d’Or winner cements Panahi’s legacy as cinema’s most resilient dissident, turning confinement itself into fearless art.
