"It Was Just an Accident" by dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Festival on Saturday.

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Power restored after outage hit the prominent film festival on its closing day and affected 160,000 homes in the area.

While accepting the prize, Cespedes said that the award celebrates existence ‘even when it makes others uncomfortable’.

French actor Juliette Binoche and her jury will announce the winner from the 22 films competing for the Palme d'Or for best ...

Chilean director Diego Cespedes' first feature, 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo', won the Cannes Film Festival's ...

The Cannes Festival draws to a close today, with a wry Iranian film about political prisoners and a Ukrainian-directed drama ...

The race for the Palme d’Or wound up with a return for two-time winners the Dardenne brothers, adding a slice of Belgian social realism to a politically charged 78th Cannes Film Festival that ...

Palestinian twin directors Arab and Tarzan Nasser made global headlines Friday after winning the Best Director award in ...

Chilean director Diego Cespedes' first feature, "The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo," won the Cannes Film Festival's ...