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It Was Just An Accident - Jafar Panahi

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Iran, today. After a seemingly trivial car accident, a man believes he recognises his former torturer. The other, now a family man, fiercely denies it — and doubt begins to take hold.
Banned from filmmaking in Iran for fifteen years, Jafar Panahi has turned cinema into an act of resistance, continuing to work in secret. Imprisoned in Evin in 2022 and 2023, he drew on that experience to depict the moral conflict of former prisoners confronting their torturers. It Was Just An Accident, winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a gripping, unsettling thriller where revenge, humour and humanity intertwine.