It Was Just An Accident (2025)

Jafar Panahi | Iran, France, Luxembourg | 2025 | 103 min | PG13 (Some Violence) A man believes he has found his torturer, setting off a journey that explores the fragility of memory and the cost of justice. When Vahid, a quiet mechanic, hears the squeak of a prosthetic leg, he is thrust back into the memory of being tortured by the regime. Convinced the man is one of his former captors, Vahid abducts him and enlists the services of fellow victims whose lives were also scarred by the same traumas. But soon, uncertainty begins to take hold – can vengeance be justified when memory itself cannot be trusted? With dark humour, razor-sharp tension and devastating restraint, Panahi transforms a desolate road into a space of reckoning, where justice, guilt and truth collide in the dust of post-traumatic silence. This is a searing moral thriller and a haunting portrait of a man searching for closure in a world that offers none.