The movie “A SIMPLE ACCIDENT” It is a moral thriller that examines the dilemma of former detained detainees attempted to take revenge on their torturer, in a direct attack on the arbitrariness of security forces. The movie is also a Reflection on justice and revenge on arbitrariness.
Iranian filmmaker and dissident Jafar Panahi was awarded the Golden Palm at the Cannes International Film Festival for the movie “A Simple Accident”, shot in secret, the organization announced.
The 64-year-old filmmaker managed to move to Cannes for the first time, in 15 years, To receive your prize, delivered by the actress Juliette Binochewho presided over a jury composed by the American actress Halle Berrythe director to Indiana Payal Kapadia and the Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher.
The Congolese director and producer Dieudo Hamadi, South Korean director Hong Sangsoo, the Mexican director Carlos Reygadasthe American actor Jeremy Strong and the writer Franco-Marroquina Leïla Slimani They also joined the jury.
The movie is also a Reflection on justice and revenge on arbitrariness.
At the awarding ceremony, the Iranian director appealed to “Freedom” of your country.
“I think this is the time to ask all people, all Iranians, with all different opinions, anywhere in the world, that put aside (…) all the problems, all the differences. The most important is our country and the freedom of our country,” he said in Farsi, according to the translation provided by the festival.
Panahi, who was arrested twice in Iran – One of them six years and twenty years forbidden to film -, where he could not leave until recently, promised to return after Cannes, despite the risk of reprisals, because No one knows what destination the authorities reserve him After this eleventh feature film now internationally awarded.
“The most important thing is that the movie was made. I didn’t have time to think about what could happen. I’m alive while making movies,” he told AFP this week.
By handing him the Golden Palm, the President of the Jury, Juliette Binoche, spoke of the vocation of the artists to “Turning darkness into forgiveness.”
The feature film was clandestinethe director refused to ask for permission to film, challenging the laws of the Islamic Republic, while several of his actresses appear without a veil.
And the According to Iranian to win the Golden Palmafter Abbas Kiarostami with “the taste of the cherry” (1997), and, in 2024, another Iranian, Mohammad Rasoulofwon a special award for “The Seeds of the Wild Fig Tree”.
The 78th Cannes Film Festival echoed Wars in the Middle East and Ukraineand also of some committed statements, starting with Robert De Niro to Donald Trump’s attack at the opening ceremony.
