Jafar Panahi, “A simple accident”

Face to face with the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival for the film “A simple accident”, soon to be released. Panahi’s cinema has long been banned in his homeland and he has been arrested several times since 2009, most recently in 2022 to be released on February 3, 2023, after a hunger strike. Awarded by Giuseppe Tornatore at the last Rome Film Festival, he told Effetto Notte: “When I discovered Italian neorealism I understood that my future would be in social cinema, I am thinking in particular of titles like ‘Bicycle Thieves’”. Do you feel freer now? “I feel calm – he concludes – only when I can shoot my films”.

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November 10, 2025

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