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IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT<\/h2>\nIT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT<\/h2>\n| 2025 – 101′ – A France\/Iran\/Luxembourg Co-production – Drama, Thriller. <\/p>\n What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.\u00a0A man named Eghbal\u00a0is driving at night with his pregnant wife when he hits and kills a dog. The accident badly damages his engine and causes the car to break down shortly thereafter. He pulls over to a nearby garage owned by Vahid, who notices that the man resembles the officer who tortured him in prison and ruined his life.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT | 2025 – 101′ – A France\/Iran\/Luxembourg Co-production – Drama, Thriller. France’s Official Entry for Best International Feature \u2013 Academy Award 2026 Written by: Jafar Panahi Directed by:\u00a0Jafar Panahi. Starring:\u00a0Vahid Mobasheri,\u00a0Maria Afshari,\u00a0Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Madjid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr. Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2025 (Winner Palme d\u2019Or). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,95,127,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-on-digital","category-tafff","category-co-produced-by-france","category-drama","category-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22119"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26064,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions\/26064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrance’s Official Entry for Best International Feature \u2013 Academy Award 2026<\/span>
\n<\/span>Written by: Jafar Panahi
\nDirected by:\u00a0Jafar Panahi.
\nStarring:\u00a0Vahid Mobasheri,\u00a0Maria Afshari,\u00a0Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Madjid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr.
\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2025 (Winner Palme d\u2019Or<\/strong>).
\n2\u00a0<\/b>Academy\u00a0Awards Nomination 2026<\/b>\u00a0including Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. 2\u00a0nominations\u00a0C<\/span>\u00e9sar Awards 2026: Best Film, Best Original Screenplay.
\n<\/span>Official Competition\u00a0TAFFF 2025 (Special Screening).<\/b>
\nIn Persian with English subtitles.
\nA Neon release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n