It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, winning the award for Best Screenplay.

It is filmed in a remote Turkish (Azerbaijani) speaking part of Iran where Panahi's parents hail from.

The website's critical consensus states: "Observational, insightful, and ultimately powerful, 3 Faces adds another quietly thought-provoking chapter to writer-director Jafar Panahi's filmography".

[2] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.

"[1] The Los Angeles Times described the film as a "multi-generational portrait" with "its quotidian poetry, its deep reserves of mystery and its rich rewards for an open-hearted audience".