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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

“Brave” is an overused word in film reviews, said Wendy Ide in The Observer – applied to anything from an actor’s weight gain for a role to “an unconventional editing decision”. But Iranian director ...

‘It Was Just an Accident’: Inside 2025’s Most Pivotal 15 Minutes and Best Supporting Performance Jafar Panahi discusses the climactic scene he wasn't sure he could pull off and why it required the ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated political drama “It Was Just An Accident,” was arrested in Tehran on Saturday after endorsing a statement denouncing the actions of ...

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 ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the co-writer of Jafar Panahi's Oscar-nominated political drama "It Was Just An Accident," was arrested in Tehran on Saturday after endorsing a statement denouncing the actions of ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated It Was Just an Accident co-writer, has been arrested in Iran for speaking out against the Islamic Republic’s regime. On Saturday, Mahmoudian was arrested in ...