The job of film editing is one thing, but the job of editing a Jafar Panahi film is something else. Iranian editor Amir Etminan has edited two features and a short film for Panahi, the famed director ...

"I have a family too, I understand." Neon has debuted the official trailer for the acclaimed, award-winning new film from beloved Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi titled It Was Just an Accident. The ...

Panahi is no stranger to arrest, having made several films under house arrest, including This Is Not a Film, Closed Curtain and Taxi, the last of which won the Berlin International Film Festival’s ...

Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi struck a chord with “It Was Just an Accident,” one of his most political movies, and his first film since being released from jail in Iran. The movie, which ...

It Was Just an Accident (2025)’s plot synopsis: “Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man that he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic ...

This weekend, I watched the 2025 film It Was Just an Accident, written and directed by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, a winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or. The movie opens with a brief prologue. A family ...

Paris-based Lucky Number has acquired “The Piano Accident,” the latest feature film by prolific French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, whose “The Second Act” opened the Cannes Film Festival last year.