When Jafar PanhiS “It was just an accident“Debuted on 2025 Cannes Film Festival, it was the culmination on a brutal trip. The Iranian filmmaker has been banned from filmmaking (although it rarely stopped him) and imprisoned several times to oppose his home country’s government, By 2022When he had to trust others to read messages on his behalf at global film festivals that showed his film “No bears.”
He was eventually released after a hunger strike In February 2023 and returned to work on a blowing moral dilemma film about an Iranian man who kidnaps the man who once tortured him in prison and, along with man’s other victims, is forced to make a decision to kill him or not.
“It was just an accident” that premiered to rave reviews and a Palme d’Or victory at the Film Festival 2025 Cannes, with critics who praise Panahi’s deeply personal connection to the material and the nuanced moral dilemma that the film depicts.
“From the plot description alone, it is obvious that” it was just an accident “finds Panahi that works in a completely different register than he had to” forbid “from making the movies-a period that saw his long-standing preference for metafiction be significantly more pronounced, because he was forced to make himself the subject of the iPhone/Camcor-Maste-Mask Indieviews David Ehrlich wrote In his Cannes review. “This one must still be shot in secret to Kjola government approval, but it requires great pleasure to replace self -reflexivity in Panahi’s illegal work with a slightly more formal sense of composition, although it remains impossible to separate the final product from the personal experience that informed it.”
“It was just an account” is written and directed by Jafar Panahi. The movie Stars Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Affshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Georges Hashemzadeh, Delmaz Najafi, Affsanhe Najmabadi.
Neon will release “It was just an accident” in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 15 with a national launch to follow. Look at the trailer below.