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Filmmaker Jafar Panahi wins top Cannes prize

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Scott Roxborough in Cannes, France | Ben Fajzullin
May 25, 2025

Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival for his movie "It Was Just an Accident." It tells the story of a group of former Iranian prisoners who abduct a guard allegedly responsible for torturing them in jail.

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