With the triumph of his It Was Just an Accident (2025) at Cannes, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has now won the top honours at the Big Three film festivals of Europe—his The Circle (2000) won The Golden Lion in Venice, his Taxi (2015) won The Golden Bear in Berlin and his latest completes the trifecta with the Palme d’Or. Interestingly, two of these films have been shot and shown after he was hit with a 20-year filmmaking ban in 2010. He has be