It Was Just An Accident

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OCOpen Captioned
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It Was Just An Accident

Opens November 14

Palme d’Or winner at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival

From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi (No Bears, Taxi) comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art.

Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal’s identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor.

"Panahi welds scorching social critique to a masterful command of form: a devastating cry for justice, his latest also serves as a superb thriller. It is a towering achievement."
Leonardo Goi, The Film Stage
"[It Was Just An Accident] is a journey through a county whose trauma still needs healing before healthy new bonds can begin to form. The question of how to achieve that lies at the heart of this masterful movie."
Phillip de Semlyen, Time Out


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