{"id":70030,"date":"2025-08-14T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70030\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:52:13","slug":"it-was-just-an-accident-trailer-jafar-panahis-cannes-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70030\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It Was Just An Accident’ Trailer: Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNeon<\/a> on Thursday released the trailer for It Was Just an Accident<\/a>, Iranian director Jafar Panahi<\/a>\u2018s intense thriller that won the Palme d\u2019Or<\/a> at this year\u2019s Cannes<\/a> Film Festival. The distributor has set an October 15 release date for New York and an October 17 one for Los Angeles after stops at TIFF and the New York fests.<\/p>\n

\n\tVahid Mubasseri stars as a man who believes he found the man who tortured him while he was serving a prison sentence for asking to be paid his wages. Seeking revenge, he kidnaps him and begins to bury him alive in the desert. But does he have the right man?<\/p>\n

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\n\tNeeding to know for sure, he finds a wedding\u00a0photographer (Maryam Adshari) who was in jail with him at the time hoping she\u2019d confirm the man\u2019s identity \u2014 though she is in the middle of a wedding photo shoot with a bride (Hadis Pakbaten) and groom (Majid Panahi). The tension rises as they are all thrown into the mix.<\/p>\n

\n\tMohamad Polielyasmehr, Georges Hashemzadea, Ebrahim Azizzi, Delmaz Najafi and Afssaneh Najamabadi also star.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic from Panahi, the master filmmaker who has won Berlin\u2019s top prize (for 2015\u2019s Taxi) and Venice\u2019s top prize (for 2000\u2019s The Circle), was based on his experiences in his own time in an Iranian prison for protesting the arrest of other Iranian filmmakers. Like his past movies, he shot this film without permits and in secrecy, with threats of arresting the crew and shutting down production during shooting near Tehran.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanahi also produced Accident with Philippe Martin. The film is co-produced by Sandrine Dumas and Christel Henon, with David Thion and Lilina Eche associate producers.\u00a0It is a Les Films Pell\u00e9as and Jafar Panahi Production from Iran\/France and Luxembourg.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the trailer above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neon on Thursday released the trailer for It Was Just an Accident, Iranian director Jafar Panahi\u2018s intense thriller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,43877,5328,75,43714,43715,337,12507],"class_list":["post-70030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-it-was-just-an-accident","tag-jafar-panahi","tag-movies","tag-neon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}