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IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Iran-France-Luxembourg-USA, 2025, 103 min, color

Despite bans and censorship, Iranian director Jafar Panahi returns to the big screen with this powerful and moving story.

A driver returning to his native village with his wife and child accidentally runs over a dog. They stop at a roadside junkyard to seek help, but fate has a surprise in store for them. The mechanic at the repair shop hears a sound from a wooden prosthesis that seems familiar to him. For him, it brings back memories of the years when he was a political prisoner and a man with the same prosthesis tortured him. The chance encounter turns into dangerous suspicion.

What begins as a classic story of revenge turns into a moral, social, and psychological dilemma: who has the right to judge? Who needs justice, and what does it mean – blood, silence, or forgiveness? Amid the tension, anger, and mistrust, nothing is certain except the pain these people carry.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Canes ’25 – Palme d’Or

Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi is one of the most important artists of the “new wave” in Iranian cinema. He has won festival prizes such as the Golden Lion, Golden Bear, Silver Bear, Golden Leopard and dozens of other prestigious international awards. His work has been known to Bulgarian viewers since the 1990s, and he himself was a guest of Sofia International Film Festival in 2002 and 2004. His films The White Balloon, The Mirror, The Circle, Crimson Gold, Offside, This Is Not a Film, Closed Curtain, Taxi, 3 Faces are part of the programs of the most prestigious film forums.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

1995 The White Balloon

1997 The Mirror

2000 The Circle

2011 This Is Not a Film

2015 Taxi

2018 3 Faces

2022 No Bears

2025 It Was Just an Accident

DIRECTOR

Jafar Panahi

SCRIPT

Jafar Panahi

CAMERA

Amin Jafari

CAST

Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi

PRODUCERS

Jafar Panahi, Philippe Martin

PRODUCTION

Jafar Panahi Film Productions, Les Films Pelléas

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IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Iran-France-Luxembourg-USA, 2025, 103 min, color

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