Jafar Panahi, a dissident Iranian filmmaker, has garnered the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his latest work, "It Was Just an Accident." The film, inspired by Panahi's personal experiences with imprisonment and torture under the Iranian government, represents his first major project since a filmmaking ban was lifted. It tells the story of five characters seeking revenge on their anonymous torturer, highlighting the psychological toll of imprisonment. This triumph continues a winning streak for US studio Neon at Cannes. Panahi previously had his film smuggled into the festival during his 2011 imprisonment.
In 2011, a year after my first arrest, a copy of my drama This Is Not a Film was sneaked into Cannes on a USB hidden in a cake.
It Was Just an Accident is my most personal drama to date; it follows five characters who believe they have identified the person who tortured them in prison.
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