How a Prison Sentence Helped an Iranian Director Win at Cannes
It Was Just an Accident was a hit at the film festival; its creator says he has his incarceration to thank.
It Was Just an Accident.
Source: TIFF“I went to get some rest,” quipped Jafar Panahi about the months he spent in Iranian prison.
It was the director’s first time back at the Cannes Film Festival after the authorities in his home country banned him from making movies and traveling internationally for more than 14 years. Interviewed a few days before his film It Was Just An Accident won the Palme d’Or, he was remarkably good-humored while describing experiences most would consider traumatic—including two stints at Tehran’s Evin Prison, one of the world’s most infamous detention facilities for dissidents.
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