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It Was Just an Accident

Dir. Jafar Panahi
Constellation
Sun 2 Nov - Sat 8 Nov
Sun 2 Nov
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Sat 8 Nov
  • Sun 2 Nov
    15:45
    Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
    Screen 1
    Past event
  • Mon 3 Nov
    18:15
    Vue in the Light, Leeds
    Screen 12
    Past event
  • Sat 8 Nov
    12:00
    Cottage Road Cinema, Leeds
    Screen 1
    Past event

Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident is a bold, darkly satirical thriller that confronts the violence of Iran’s repressive regime head-on.

A minor traffic collision sparks a tense reunion between two men with a shared, traumatic past — one a victim, the other possibly his former torturer. What begins as an almost absurd road trip escalates into a gripping moral reckoning on justice, revenge, and the possibility of mercy.

"There’s a seam of pitch black gallows humour running through the picture, and moments of absurdist hilarity. But mostly, it’s an impassioned and forthright condemnation of the regime and of the men who do its bidding." — Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

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Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury and tortures, and themes of bereavement and death.

Director Jafar Panahi
Running time 105 mins
Production year 2025
Country Iran, France, Luxembourg
Language Persian, English
Courtesy of MUBI

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