It Was Just An Accident
France's official submission for Best International Feature! A searing, slow-burning morality play, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is a thoughtful, profound and darkly funny tale about the self-destructive nature of revenge.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (THE WHITE BALLOON, NO BEARS) won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this taut, sharply written tale of revenge. What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences when car mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) believes he has encountered the government interrogator who tortured him, but he cannot be certain because he never saw the man’s face. Filmed in secret in Iran, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT elegantly confronts its characters with entangled questions of suspicion, moral ambiguity, and the meaning of retribution.DramaPT1H44MPG-132025-10-31Vahid Mobasseri
Mariam Afshari
Ebrahim Azizi
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi
Philippe Martin
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