It Was Just an Accident (2025)
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Director: Jafar Panahi Run Time: 104 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2025
Starring: Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mariam Afshari, Vahid Mobasseri
Country: Iran, France, Luxembourg, United States
Language: Persian, English
About the film:
Winner – Palme d’Or – 2025 Cannes Film Festival
Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, is suddenly reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to try and confirm Eghbal’s identity. Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi creates a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution and revenge.
About the filmmaker:
Jafar Panahi is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and editor known for his humanist films that often address social and political issues in Iran. He gained international recognition with his 1995 film The White Balloon, which won the Camera d’Or at Cannes. Despite facing censorship and legal consequences from Iranian authorities, including a prison sentence and 20-year ban on filmmaking in 2010, he continued to make films, which were sometimes smuggled out of the country.
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