It Was Just An Accident
Singapore Premiere
Jafar Panahi Iran, France, Luxembourg 2025 103 min PG13 (Some Violence)
A man believes he has found his torturer, setting off a journey that explores the fragility of memory and the cost of justice.
When Vahid, a quiet mechanic, hears the squeak of a prosthetic leg, he is thrust back into the memory of being tortured by the regime. Convinced the man is one of his former captors, Vahid abducts him and enlists the services of fellow victims whose lives were also scarred by the same traumas. But soon, uncertainty begins to take hold – can vengeance be justified when memory itself cannot be trusted?
With dark humour, razor-sharp tension and devastating restraint, Panahi transforms a desolate road into a space of reckoning, where justice, guilt and truth collide in the dust of post-traumatic silence. This is a searing moral thriller and a haunting portrait of a man searching for closure in a world that offers none.
Synopsis Writer: Hsieh I-hsuan
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
30 Nov, Sun 7:00PM / 103 min
National Gallery Singapore, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
2 Dec, Tue 4:30PM / 103 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 1
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It Was Just An Accident
یک تصادف ساده
Jafar Panahi
Iran, France, Luxembourg
2025
Persian
English
103 min
PG13 (Some Violence)
Singapore Premiere
Jafar Panahi
The recipient of the Cinema Honorary Award at the 35th SGIFF, Jafar Panahi is an acclaimed voice in world cinema known for portraying life in Iran under authoritarian rule. Blending poetic realism with political urgency, his films reveal the quiet struggles of people navigating systemic injustice. It Was Just An Accident won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Vahid Mobasseri,
Mariam Afshari,
Ebrahim Azizi,
Hadis Pakbaten,
Majid Panahi,
Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr
Jafar Panahi,
Philippe Martin
