Jafar Panahi on It Was Just an Accident

Jafar Panahi discusses It Was Just an Accident with NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim at the 63rd New York Film Festival. Interpretation by Sheida Dayani. Panahi will return for Q&As at Film at Lincoln Center when It Was Just an Accident opens on October 15. Get tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/it-was... Jafar Panahi (No Bears, NYFF60) reaffirms his status as one of this century’s great cinematic heroes with perhaps his bravest film yet, which won him the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Ever since he was arrested, imprisoned, and banned from making movies by the Iranian government 15 years ago, Panahi has found ways of producing films in secret and without official permission. Showing his political risk-taking as well as his confident command of craft, It Was Just an Accident is his most explicit attack on his country’s repressive regime, a cutting and darkly humorous thriller that concerns a mechanic, Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), who believes he has reencountered by chance the government intelligence officer, Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi), who had tortured him while under detainment. As Vahid enlists the services of acquaintances whose lives were also forever altered by Eghbal’s cruelties, the thirst for revenge and the sense of danger escalate—as do questions of moral choice and culpability. A NEON release. The 63rd New York Film Festival is presented in partnership with Rolex. Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Showtimes and tickets: https://filmlinc.org Follow on X: http://x.com/filmlinc Follow on Instagram:   / filmlinc   Follow on Facebook:   / filmlinc