Film Festival Cannes: Jafar Panahi wins golden palm in Cannes

With his film “Un Simple Accident”, Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Golden Palm of Cannes Film Festival. The jury announced that. The film prevailed against 21 other competition films. A jury, chaired by actress Juliette Binoche.

That’s what Panahi’s film is about

The Iranian deals with experiences in prison and the violence of the Iranian regime in “Un Simple Accident”. Panahi has already won the main prices of the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale with previous films.

His new work is about a group of former prisoners who unplanned the agent who presumably tortured them in an Iranian prison. One of the torture victims randomly sees the secret agent and kidnapped him on his bus with the aim of avenging and killing him.

Then the man get doubts. He visits a number of other victims of torture. Together they try to verify that it is definitely the man whose victim they were.

Road trip with a serious topic and humorous moments

This develops a kind of chaotic road trip on which the group gets into heated discussions about what is an appropriate form of revenge. It is more often about the deeply violent experiences that the parties involved in captivity. Despite the difficult topic, there are also humorous moments in the film.

The award ceremony of the 78th Film Festival took place as planned after there was a larger power failure in Cannes on Saturday.

These are the other award winners

The Berliner Mascha Schilinski won the prize of the jury for her drama “look into the sun”, which she shares with Oliver Laxe for his film “Sirât”.

The jury’s great prize, the second most important award of the festival, went to “Sentimental Value” by Joachim Trier.

Kleber Mendonça Filho received the prize for the best director for “O Secreto Agente”. BI GAN received a special prize for the jury for “Resurrection”. The prize as the best actress went to Nadia Melliti for her role in “La Petite Dernière”.

Wagner Moura was awarded the best actor for his role in “O Secreto Agente” by Kleber Mendonça Filho. For the best script, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne were awarded “Jeunes Mères”.