It Was Just an Accident: Sunday, November 9

Admission $5
Showings @ 2pm and 5pm
Discussion following the 2pm show

Persian (subtitled), Drama/Mystery/Thriller, 1 hour-45 min, Rated PG-13
Director: Jafar Panahi

Vahid, an Azerbaijani auto mechanic, was once imprisoned by Iranian authorities. During his sentence, he was interrogated blindfolded. One day, a man named Eghbal enters his workshop. His prosthetic leg creaks, and Vahid thinks he recognizes one of his former torturers. This sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.

(Panahi, who is critical of the Iranian government and has been imprisoned several times, made the film without official filming permission from the Iranian authorities.)

2025 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Winner

“Undoubtedly one of the year’s best, It Was Just An Accident is yet another moving, prickly and hopeful morality tale from Panahi about people (and a society) trying to find a way forward while processing the trauma of the past.” — CBC Radio

“Both a nail-biting thriller and a messy moral drama, rife with tensions between justice and vengeance, healing and suffering, and reality and fantasy.” — The Daily Beast