Jafar Panahi discusses the climactic scene he wasn't sure he could pull off and why it required the film's one professional ...

It Was Just an Accident ( now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is more than just a film – it’s a righteous act of defiance. But that’s par for the course for director Jafar Panahi, ...

It Was Just an Accident (VOD): A very strong contender for the best movie of the year, Jafar Panahi 's It Was Just an ...

It Was Just an Accident' film editor talks about how he crafted the tension of the year's best political thriller.

When the Iranian director Jafar Panahi showed up at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, it struck some of us as something close to a miracle. For most of the past 15 years, since he was ...

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just and Accident is a deeply felt moral thriller and a road-trip revenge story that won the Palme d'Or ...

Victims of torture by the Iranian religious regime, 2 men and 2 women seek justice, revenge, and closure while on an Iranian road trip. Winner of the most recent Palme d’Or at Cannes, “It Was Just an ...

NEW YORK — The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, banned from traveling, put under house arrest and ordered to stop making films for 20 years. And, yet, Panahi has continually made ...

The mundane act of a car breaking down one night on a road in Iran sets in motion one of the most moving movies of the year in “It Was Just an Accident.” The sputtering car comes to a stop outside a ...

Throughout cinematic history, revenge is a subject well-examined. Often, American audiences have watched films unspool with the view that violence begetting violence is an act of desperation. Where ...