ItalianoIt Was Just an Accident
22 October 18:30
Sala Petrassi
Pub Acc
Festa del cinema
Synopsis
A father, mother, and young daughter are driving at night and run over a dog. The accident will set off a series of unforeseen events.
COMMENTARY
A hard-hitting political film about the human and moral consequences of the Iranian regime, crafted by the ever-surprising Jafar Panahi, his instinctive support of and complicity with the characters and the settings at work, is almost a road movie, with a bracing undercurrent of surreal everyday humour.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
I asked myself what would happen if one of the people I’d met in prison were released and came face to face with someone who had tortured and humiliated him? I quickly realized that what mattered most was the authenticity of the stories about life in prison, and the different ways they can be told.
Director
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi was born in 1960 in Mianeh, Iran. In 1995, his first feature film, The White Balloon, won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. In 1997, his film The Mirror received the Golden Leopard at Locarno, while his 2000 film The Circle won the Golden Lion at Venice. In 2010, Panahi was sentenced to a twenty-year ban on directing films and writing screenplays and the threat of a six-year prison sentence for his dissidence against the Iranian regime. Despite these restrictions, he continued to make films, winning the Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlinale for Taxi Tehran, and the Palme d’Or at Cannes for It was Just an Accident in 2025.