It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Criterion Collection, Special Edition

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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 DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New digital master, approved by director Jafar Panahi
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