IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s gripping thriller follows a group of former Iranian political prisoners who face a moral dilemma.

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. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi 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.

‘Extraordinary. Every moment of it attests to the work of a master.’ Rolling Stone

‘Panahi is one of the most distinctive and courageous figures in the world of cinema.’ The Guardian