Zafar Panahi won the Palma Dor Award at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, dedicated to the people of Iran

World famous Iranian filmmaker Zafar Panahi won the biggest award of the 78th Cannes Film Festival for his film It Waz Just an accident. Hollywood’s famous actress Nicole Kidman honored Zafar Panahi with Zafar Panahi with the Best Film ‘Palma Door’ award at the closing ceremony of the Kan Film Festival at Canator Loomier, the Grand Theater Lumier.

When Zuliet Binosh announced the name of Zafar Panahi for this award, he stayed in his seat for some time. Later he said that how can I be happy here alone, while many of my fellow filmmakers and actors are jailed in my country Iran and many people have been stopped from making films.

Zafar Panahi has also been released from jail recently. He was sentenced to six years in 2010 and was banned from making a film for twenty years. He remained in the house arrest in Tehran for years. When Zafar Panahi’s name was called for the Palma Door Award, about three and a half thousand spectators stood up in the Grand Theater Lumier and expressed happiness by clapping for a long time.

Jury president Juliet Binosh said that Zafar Panahi has been struggling in his country (Iran) in a long time against dictatorship and religious fundamentalism for human dignity and freedom. The film is the story of one night in Tehran in which many interesting incidents occur after one after a simple car accident. It starts with vengeance and forgiveness to Karuna and also debate the morality of murder.

In the official press conference of the Cannes Film Festival after winning the award, Zafar Panahi said that I am very happy with this award but for some time I was lost in the memories of the fellow filmmakers, one by one, his faces started coming in front of me who were in jail with me and are still in jail. I dedicate this award to my Iranian public who is struggling for independence by putting a game of life.

He said that there was a time when no one knew Iranian cinema. Today Iranian cinema has a special identity in the whole world. Many Iranian filmmakers contributed to making this identity due to which we have arrived here. We spend life in making films and there is always a problem of money because we cannot take money from everyone. The reason is that if the money is not understood by the good cinema, then it will ruin the film. Today there is a problem of violence, war and dictatorship in every country. We hope through cinema that everything will be alright one day, peace will be maintained and everyone will get justice.

He spoke on the stage of the Grand Theater Lumier and at the press conference in Iran’s national language Persian which was first translated into French and from French to English. This is the first film of Zafar Panahi after being released from jail (2022). However, it is being said that he made this film without the permission of the Iranian government and in this film, women are shown wearing hijabs. This is a kind of cinematic resistance to the government hijab law. There has been a big movement in Iran recently on this issue.

After winning the Palma Door Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Zafar Panahi has become the fourth filmmaker in the world who has received the Best Film Award in all big film festivals. He has received the Golden Beer Award of Best Film for Taxi (2015) film at Berlin International Film Festival and ‘Golden Lion’ for ‘The Circle’ (2000) at Venice International Film Festival.

Jochim Triere gets the second largest ear award

The second biggest award of the Cannes Film Festival ‘Grand Prix’ was presented to Jocheim Triere of Denmark for his film ‘Sental Value’. The Best Director Award was given to Brazil’s Cleber Mendonka Filho for his film ‘The Secret Agent’. Vagner Maura received the Best Actor Award for his outstanding acting in this film. In the jury’s press conference, the question arose as to why the same film was given two awards which are usually not in the Cannes Film Festival.

The Best Actress award was received by Nadia Melity for his outstanding acting in Hafsia Herji’s film ‘The Little Sister’. The Best screenplay award was given to its authors’ Jean Pierre Darden and Luke Darden (Darden Brothers) for the film ‘Young Mother’s’. He has received nine awards at the Cannes Film Festival so far. The Jury Prize was jointly jointly for France’s Spanish film ‘Seit’ and Germany’s Masha Shilinsky for her film ‘Sound of Falling’.

Apart from this, Jury presented a special award to China’s B Anthem for his science fantasy film ‘Respect’. Even on this, the question raised the question in the press conference of the jury, Jury’s chairman Juliet Binosh said that this decision was taken unanimously because it is a unique film. It is like a poem that invites you to dream.

Bangladeshi filmmaker also received awards for the first time

Palma Door of Short Film was given to Taufiq Barhom of Iraq for his film I am Glad You and Dead Now. This is the first prize given to an Iraqi filmmaker in the history of the Cannes Film Festival. Similarly, Adnan al -Rajiv of Bangladesh received the Special Mention Award for his film ‘Ali’ which any Bangladeshi filmmaker received for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival. Hasan Hadi received the award for the first film for the camera de, this time for ‘The President Cake’. The film was shown in the director Fortnight Khand which is the sidebar activity of the Cannes Film Festival.