Dec 3, 2025: It Was Just An Accident

Wenesday, Dec 3 2025
7 pm @ Galaxy Cinemas, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

Director: Jafar Panahi;
Iran 2025;
English, Persian; 105 min

From acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes a quietly devastating portrait of guilt, morality, and the ripple effects of chance. What begins as a minor mishap unfolds into a powerful meditation on responsibility and the unseen costs of our choices. Celebrated by critics for its spare elegance, emotional force, and moral clarity, It Was Just an Accident is both urgent and universal. Audiences will be drawn into its subtle tension and left reflecting long after the credits roll. French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot called Panahi’s Palme D’or win “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression”.

Winner of the Palme D’or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival

…when people tell you this is one of the best films of the year, believe them. Luke Y. Thompson, Mortal Cinema (Substack)

A brilliant film that condenses years of sociopolitical criticism, internal exile, and buried rage into just 103 minutes of pure cinema, which Panahi masterfully frames to underline the state of resistance of the oppressed voices. Yasser Medina Cinefilia