It Was Just An Accident

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  • Run time: 103 minutes Subject to change
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Iran | 2025 | In Farsi with English subtitles | Thriller & Crime | Unclassified 15+

Winner of the 2025 Palme d'Or, master filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s searing moral thriller turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanising work of art. Taking home the Sydney Film Prize at the 2025 Sydney Film Festival, It Was Just An Accident engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy.

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.

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Event details

A furious but funny revenge thriller.

BBC

One of cinema's most daring directors might've just made his masterpiece

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Cast and credits

Director Jafar Panahi
Producer Jafar Panahi, Philippe Martin
Screenwriter Jafar Panahi
Cinematographer Amin Jafari

Cast
Vahid Mobasseri 
Mariam Afshari 
Ebrahim Azizi

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Sydney Opera House
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