"It Was Just an Accident" ("Yek tasadef sadeh") is an Iran-France-Luxembourg co-produced thriller written and directed by Jafar Panahi. The cast includes Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Delnaz Najafi, Afssaneh Najmabadi and Georges Hashemzadeh.
The film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d'Or. It opened in theaters in France on October 1, 2025. In the US it was released in select theaters on October 15th, and via streaming on December 16th.
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