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What starts as a late-night pit stop on a remote Iranian road spirals into a taut and unsettling thriller in It Was Just an Accident, the newest film from Jafar Panahi which won the Cannes Palme d’Or. When mechanic Vahid recognises a traveller’s squeaky prosthetic leg as belonging to the officer who once tortured him, he seizes his chance for revenge - kidnapping the man and dragging him into the desert. But as paranoia mounts and fellow former prisoners are drawn into the confrontation, doubt creeps in: what if he has the wrong man? Blending gallows humour with mounting suspense, Panahi reshapes the road movie into a gripping fable of revenge, conscience, and the unbearable weight of memory.
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