Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Jafar Panahi has a great deal in common with his “It Was Just an Accident” ensemble of characters, fellow Iranian ...

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 ...

The act of revolution in Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi’s latest feature, It Was Just an Accident, exists within the filmic text ...

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It Was Just an Accident (now streaming on Hulu, in addition to VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is more than just a film – it’s a righteous act of defiance. But that’s par for the course for ...

It Was Just an Accident (2025) Film Review from the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival, a movie directed and written by Jafar Panahi, and starring Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim ...

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Not all Oscar nominees are now household names like One Battle After Another, Sinners, and Marty Supreme. Among them is It Was Just an Accident, a lesser-known but no less powerful film that’s been ...

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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 ...

Over the weekend, Jafar Panahi told IndieWire why his co-writer Mahmoudian was imprisoned, and why the director will return to Iran after the Oscars on March 15. Iran has released Mehdi Mahmoudian, ...

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 ...