Oscar-nominated and Cannes-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been summoned for a court hearing in Iran tomorrow as part of a retrial related to charges against him of “propaganda activity against the regime.”
Panahi, who won last year’s Palme d’Or in Cannes for It Was Just An Accident, was sentenced by Iran’s Revolutionary Court to one year in prison and a two-year travel ban in absentia at the end of 2025.
The filmmaker returned to Iran at the end of March after the ceremony for the 98th Academy Awards in which It Was Just An Accident was nominated for Best International Feature Film.
The retrial has been called following an appeal by Panahi’s lawyers.
Branch 26 of the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court, which is overseeing the case, also banned the director from membership of political and social groups.
