It Was Just an Accident
In this Palme d’Or winner from the Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, a chance encounter sets in motion an urgent moral thriller. When a stranded driver (Ebrahim Azizi) walks into his shop, mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) believes he has come face-to-face with Eghbal, a notoriously brutal guard who tortured him during his political imprisonment. Gathering a band of fellow former inmates and other allies, Vahid sets out to take justice into his own hands—but does he have the right man? Shot in secret after Panahi’s longtime ban from filmmaking in his home country, It Was Just an Accident is a tour de force of sustained tension and mordant humor, provocatively shifting perspectives to examine vital questions of trauma and revenge.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New digital master, approved by director Jafar Panahi, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New conversation between Panahi and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani
- Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2025 featuring Panahi and members of the cast and crew
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
New cover by Eric Skillman
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New digital master, approved by director Jafar Panahi, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New conversation between Panahi and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani
- Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2025 featuring Panahi and members of the cast and crew
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Vahid Mobasseri
- Vahid
- Maryam Afshari
- Shiva
- Ebrahim Azizi
- Eghbal
- Hadis Pakbaten
- Golrokh
- Majid Panahi
- Groom
- Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr
- Hamid
- Georges Hashemzadeh
- Salar
- Delnaz Najafi
- The little girl
- Afssaneh Najmabadi
- Eghbal’s wife
Credits
- Director
- Jafar Panahi
- Written by
- Jafar Panahi
- Produced by
- Jafar Panahi
- Produced by
- Philippe Martin
- Coproduced by
- Sandrine Dumas
- Coproduced by
- Christel Henon
- Associate producer
- David Thion
- Associate producer
- Lilian Eche
- Director of photography
- Amin Jafari
- Artistic consultant
- Panah Panahi
- Script consultant
- Nader Saïvar
- Script consultant
- Shadmehr Rastin
- Script consultant
- Mehdi Mahmoudian
- Editor
- Amir Etminan
- Sound recording, foley, and editing
- Abdolreza Heidari
- Sound editing
- Valérie de Loof
- Sound editing
- Nicolas Leroy
- Production design and costumes
- Leila Naghdi
- Assistant director
- Shahrokh Panahi
- Production manager
- Behnam Roshan
- Postproduction supervision
- Pooya Abbasian
- Postproduction supervision
- Juliette Mallon
Trailer for It Was Just an Accident
