France has selected Jafar Panahi ‘s Iranian drama It Was Just an Accident to represent the country at next year’s Oscars in the best international feature category.

This is the second year running that a European country has nominated a film from an Iranian dissident director for the Academy Awards. Last year, Germany put forward Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig , which secured an Oscar nomination. It is also the second year running that France has picked a non-French-language film for the best international feature race, following last year’s selection of Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez (which was also nominated).

France has selected Jafar Panahi ‘s Iranian drama It Was Just an Accident to represent the country at next year’s

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