panahi's film was not embraced as a resounding success in cannes.eft some critics unsatisfied. panahi was not the only competing filmmaker unable to come to cannes. kirill serebrennikov, the director of the russian film leto, focused on the music scene in leningrad in the 1980s. he is currently at being held under house arrest on charges of embezzlement of state funds, a charge that many of his colleagues see as politically motivated. 0ne slight consolation for the filmmakers barred from coming to cannes this year is that their enforced absence brought them and their films a lot of publicity. a veritable army of filmmakers comes to cannes every year, with their full—length features or short films, hoping for success. what is it like to be a lesser—known filmmaker, having your film shown at the festival? well, to find out we followed yorgos zois from greece, whose short film third kind was screened at cannes. super excited we are going to cannes, we are landing in a few hours. my name is yorgos zois, i'm from greece. we are now on the beaches of cann

jafar panahi's jafar pa nahi's latest jafar panahi's latest picture, three faces, was in competitionselves travelling to a remote village to investigate the apparent suicide of a young girl. these are partly becomes an expiration of the village and the patriarchal attitudes of its men. —— exploration. panahi has shown remarkable resilience as a filmmaker, managing to defy a filmmaking ban imposed after it had been deemed he had engaged in activities that were against the country's national security. sits the ban, he has made some well—received films, including taxi in 2015, which won the top prize at the berlin film festival. he has to work secretly come as a clandestine filmmaker, basically. also, he doesn't want to involve too many people in his project because, you know, working with a band filmmaker could he considered, you know, a violation in iran. it could lead anybody to be banned themselves. so thatis anybody to be banned themselves. so that is why he says if there is a role he can play, he plays it himself. he does not claim to be a movie actor. panahi commands enormous res