French FM calls Iranian director Jafar Panahi's Cannes triumph 'a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's ...

Mr Jean-Noel Barrot called the win a "gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression”. Read more at ...

France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, had praised dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or win as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression.” ...

Iran summoned the French charge d’affaires in Tehran Sunday over “insulting” comments by France’s foreign minister after an ...

Jafar Panahi, one of Iran’s most persecuted and admired filmmakers, has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for It ...

Iran on Sunday summoned the French charge d'affaires in Tehran after France’s foreign minister called filmmaker Jafar ...

Jafar Panahi - who is a vocal critic of his home country's regime - was previously imprisoned and banned from filmmaking by ...

Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for It Was Just An Accident, a bold film made in secret. Despite years of arrest, ...

Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi told AFP on Saturday that he was “not at all” scared to return to Iran after winning ...

Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d`Or top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, using ...