It Was Just an Accident (2025) Film Review from the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival, a movie directed and written by Jafar Panahi, and starring Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim ...

It Was Just an Accident (now streaming on Hulu, in addition to VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is more than just a film – it’s a righteous act of defiance. But that’s par for the course for ...

The premise is simple enough: A man finds his family trip interrupted when his car breaks down. A mechanic thinks this stranger in town was the same person who tortured him for years in prison. He ...

In his latest movie, the formerly banned filmmaker Jafar Panahi tells a circuitous, moving and unexpectedly funny story of resistance. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

From left: Cate Blanchett, Jafar Panahi (with his Palme d'Or) and Juliette Binoche at Cannes. Baz Bamigboye/Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Jafar Panahi, director of Palme d’Or winner and France’s powerful ...

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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies, continues with Jafar Panahi’s Neon film It Was Just an Accident, a deeply felt moral ...

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‘It Was Just an Accident’: Inside 2025’s Most Pivotal 15 Minutes and Best Supporting Performance Jafar Panahi discusses the climactic scene he wasn't sure he could pull off and why it required the ...