{"id":167270,"date":"2025-05-26T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/?p=167270"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:34:51","slug":"luxus-magazine-2025-cannes-film-festival-jafar-panahi-wins-the-palme-dor-for-a-simple-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/luxus-magazine-2025-cannes-film-festival-jafar-panahi-wins-the-palme-dor-for-a-simple-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"[Luxus Magazine] 2025 Cannes Film Festival: Jafar Panahi wins the Palme d&#8217;Or for A Simple Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Iranian director Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d&#8217;Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival with <em>A Simple Accident<\/em>. It&#8217;s a political and poetic film about the excesses of the Islamic State.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>A big favorite at the Cannes Film Festival<\/b>, <b><em>A Simple Accident<\/em>, one of 22 films in competition, was finally awarded the Palme d&#8217;Or after 12 days of competition<\/b>. It succeeds <em>Anora<\/em>, a fake Cinderella story by Sean Baker, winner of the Palme d&#8217;Or in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Jafar Panahi<\/b>, its director, <b>threatened in his native Iran and banned from practicing his profession, had to work underground<\/b> to make this <b>road movie<\/b> which, like the parable evoked by jury president Juliette Binoche about art, \u201c<b>provokes, questions, and upsets<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This award clearly illustrates the political tone of this 78th edition, at a time of rising extremism around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Resistance celebrated<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In awarding Jafar Panahi&#8217;s <b>11th feature film<\/b>, the jury sought, according to its president Juliette Binoche, to honor <b>\u201ca gesture that is above all artistic and human, and therefore eminently political<\/b>.\u201d She continued, \u201c<b>This is a film that emerges from a place of resistance and survival, which is completely necessary today.<\/b> Fifteen years ago, Jafar was in prison, but <b>art will always win.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was <b>in the jails of the Islamic Republic<\/b> <b>that director Jafar Panahi found the inspiration for his latest film<\/b>, which deals with arbitrariness without putting himself in the frame, a first in his filmography.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/2025-cannes-film-festival-jafar-panahi-wins-the-palme-dor-for-a-simple-accident\/\">Click here to read the entire article<\/a> on Luxus Magazine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured image: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9 <\/span>Cannes Film Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian director Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d&#8217;Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival with A Simple Accident. 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