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225 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
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It Was Just an Accident is a 2025 drama thriller crime film, directed by Jafar Panahi, starring Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari and Ebrahim Azizi.
- 194 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span May 24, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026
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60 of 225 · most liked firstI keep thinking about the Iranian people trying to live normal lives in the movie It Was Just an Accident, opposed to the regime but doing the best they can. And I think about Anthony Bourdain's episode of No Reservations in Tehran, where he met and ate with so many smart, lovely Iranians.
neutral · AI labelView post →It Was Just an Accident is a film inspired by Jafar Panahi’s time in prison for speaking out against the Iranian government. “I sensed that I had to do something about the people who were still inside.” Should Panaji return to Iran he will face another year in prison. #JafarPanahi
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched the new Iranian movie “It Was Just an Accident” the other night. An extraordinary watch — about the aftermath of political/state repression. I’d have recommended it anyway, but especially now given what’s happening literally right now in Iran.
positive · AI labelView post →2026 Oscars — Best International Film: • The Secret Agent • Sentimental Value • Sirāt • It Was Just An Accident • The Voice of Hind Rajab See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
neutral · AI labelView post →The Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s new movie, “It Was Just an Accident,” won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. The film set the tone for a festival defined by dramas of political resistance, @justincchang.bsky.social writes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sirat is an experience of the senses such that I wish I had seen it on the big screen. Beautiful and achingly tragic. My three-way tie for best movie of 2025, having finally seen all contenders is: Sirat, The Secret Agent, and It Was Just An Accident. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sira...
positive · AI labelView post →Best Film Not in the English Language: THE SECRET AGENT (58 points) Runners-up: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (57 points) SENTIMENTAL VALUE (38 points)
neutral · AI labelView post →Golden Globes Nominations — Best International Film • It Was Just An Accident • No Other Choice • The Secret Agent • Sentimental Value • Sirāt • The Voice of Hind Rajab See the full nominees list: bit.ly/GGNoms25
neutral · AI labelView post →Trying to debate what movie to watch tonight, help me. -Eternity -It Was Just an Accident -Sentimental Value -Hamnet What do yall think? Must be one of these 4 cause I got screeners.
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the screenwriters of the Iranian film "It Was Just an Accident" has been arrested. Sonny Bunch and Mona Charen talked about it here:
neutral · AI labelView post →It Was Just An Accident is a brilliant movie from beginning to end. Just devastating, but also kind of hopeful. There is a lot of kindness in it. A good pairing with The Secret Agent, another unusual film. Both center those oppressed by systems and individuals, in life-affirming, honorable ways.
positive · AI labelView post →I write about Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, which just won the Palme d’or at #Cannes2025 (!!). A phenomenal movie and incredibly deserving winner.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jafar Panahi secretly filmed It Was Just An Accident INSIDE Iran with great personal risk to him and the actors. It can be done without doing slop. Go watch that incredible film and boycott this garbage.
neutral · AI labelView post →It Was Just An Accident might be my favorite film of the year. And that’s saying something.
positive · AI labelView post →What a great year for film 📽️! A tough task to narrow it down, but here’s my Top 10 of 2025: April One Battle After Another It Was Just An Accident Sorry, Baby Frankenstein Train Dreams Sinners The Secret Agent Sentimental Value If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Letterboxd Link: boxd.it/BQx3A
positive · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Drama Film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just An Accident The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners
neutral · AI labelView post →Best Film Not in the English Language, Runner-up: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT #LAFCA
neutral · AI labelView post →The first time I watched IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT I loved it. Upon rewatch I think Jafar Panahi’s Hitchcockian stained odyssey is damn near perfect. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →A heads-up: Jafar Panahi's brilliant Palme d'Or winner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is doing a one-week run at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social. Per my review, you should see it.
neutral · AI labelView post →He's a disgusting and ignorant evil pig obviously. If you can use this as an opportunity to watch something wonderful like "It Was Just An Accident" (my #1 movie of 2025) that would be good.
positive · AI labelView post →IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (2025) Streaming: March 1, 2026 Hulu #ItWasJustAnAccident whentostream.com/jafar-panahi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched It Was Just An Accident this morning and the ending has been haunting me all day. Incredible film, dark horse pick for Best Director imo
positive · AI labelView post →My hottest Oscars take is that y'all should watch the Best International Film nominees. It Was Just An Accident is the best movie I saw last year. Sirat rocked me. Sentimental Value glows, as does Secret Agent. They change what you think the medium can do.
positive · AI labelView post →Oscar-nominated Iranian film It Was Just an Accident is shockingly a dark comedy for most of the run time. For a film about whether or not one should kill their torturer, it's really funny and farcical. And hopeful. And devastating. Kind of brilliant.
neutral · AI labelView post →a really great movie you could go see today or any day this week if you’re in nyc is It Was Just an Accident directed by Jafar Panahi. just saying!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winner, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, is now playing in New York and Los Angeles theatres. A film of blistering rage and implacable moral authority, in which Panahi's presence, experience and courage are stamped into every frame: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just saw the Iranian film ‘It Was Just An Accident’. Excellent movie made even more resonant by what’s going on there now
positive · AI labelView post →“Did you hear what film won the Palme D’Or?” “Yeah, It Was Just An Accident!” “It was an accident? What, did they read the wrong name in the envelope” “No, the winning film was It Was Just An Accident!” “Okay so what was the real winner” “It was the real winner! That’s what I’m trying to tell you!”
neutral · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Screenplay in a Film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: One Battle After Another Marty Supreme Sinners It Was Just an Accident Sentimental Value Hamnet
neutral · AI labelView post →His first film since being released from prison, Jafar Panahi packs his anger into a van for Palme d’Or winner "It Was Just An Accident." A furious comedy-drama about what it takes to not only live under authoritarianism, but to outlive it too. #Cannes2025 www.truthdig.com/articles/don...
neutral · AI labelView post →"There are no wasted shots and no squandered moments because the film understands that cinema is life, imbued with the power to rediscover the past, to protect the present, and to imagine a future.” My 4-star review of Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
positive · AI labelView post →The full list of the 2025 #Cannes Film Festival award winners in Competition: ▪️Palme d’Or — ‘IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT’ dir. Jafar Panahi. ▪️Grand Prix — ‘SENTIMENTAL VALUE’ dir. Joachim Trier ▪️Jury Prize — ‘SIRÂT’ dir. Oliver Laxe & ‘SOUND OF FALLING’ dir. Mascha Schilinski.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (2025). Director: Jafar Panahi. Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari. Iranian tale of justice, political reckoning & revenge won the most recent Palme d'Or at Cannes as well as being nominated for International feature at Oscars. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Jafar Panahi's It Was Just An Accident probably cost less than the catering budget on bigger films, but outruns them in imagination. Dynamic yet modest, like a western or film noir. I could imagine James Stewart in the lead. Or John Garfield.
positive · AI labelView post →Jafar Panahi, who was jailed and banned from making movies in Iran, sees his film 'for It Was Just an Accident' awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →“Sincere thanks to cinema for making us feel better. Thank you to all the critics who reviewed our films and made us feel better” - Jafar Panahi accepting the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for Best Screenplay for IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT.
neutral · AI labelView post →a story in three movie titles: Sorry, Baby It Was Just an Accident Splitsville
neutral · AI labelView post →Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for his revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident."
neutral · AI labelView post →Best Opening: THE SECRET AGENT Best Finale: THE MASTERMIND Best Surprise Moment: SIRAT Runner-up Surprise Moment: SIRAT Most Movie: RESURRECTION Best Amputee: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Runner-up Amputee: SIRAT/SOUND OF FALLING/TWO PROSECUTORS [NB technical disqualification THE SECRET AGENT]
neutral · AI labelView post →The last 4 movies I watched... It Was Just an Accident Sirāt Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie X-men: First Class #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/Iqj
neutral · AI labelView post →You can stream two of the best movies of last year, The Secret Agent and It Was Just An Accident, on Hulu today. www.hulu.com/movie/4545bc...
neutral · AI labelView post →to people who dont know much about Jafar Panahi, i recommend watching It Was Just An Accident, and then reading up about his life and what he has endured in order to create his films. he is an inspirational artist, and the movie is also great on its own terms
positive · AI labelView post →Essential reading and an incredible portrait by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social of Jafar Panahi and the movie of the year (imo!!), IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
neutral · AI labelView post →Great double feature at the New York Film Festival tonight with “IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU” and “IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT”
neutral · AI labelView post →Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident is a small-scale film that capably tackles a massive subject. My review: brieftake.com/it-was-just-...
positive · AI labelView post →Film recommendation: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Jafar Panahi, 2025). An Iranian film about an ex-prisoner who unexpectedly comes across his former torturer. It's moving, hugely complex, honest and truthful, and sometimes absurdly funny and it's a remarkable glimpse into contemporary Iran. I LOVED it.
positive · AI labelView post →It Was Just An Accident is somehow brutal/funny/sweet at the same time. I look forward to every Jafar Panahi movie so much.
positive · AI labelView post →Continuing my awards season catch-up, I watched Jafar Panahi's Palme d'or winner IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. Yep, it's great.
positive · AI labelView post →Today at The Reveal: No, you're not experiencing deja vu. We're just doing a second, bonus day of reviews this week on account of all the movies. Today you can read me on FRANKENSTEIN and IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT while @scotttobias.bsky.social answers the call of BLACK PHONE 2:
neutral · AI labelView post →The bravery of this man whose storytelling so terrifies the Iranian regime. The White Balloon, The Circle, This Is Not A Film, Taxi Tehran, 3 Faces, It Was Just An Accident – if you do one thing this week, watch one of these magnificent films. He's risked everything to bring them to us:
neutral · AI labelView post →Four movie watch today and isn't going to be the last either Going with It Was Just An Accident, The Womb, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie and The Pout Pout Fish
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching 📽️ - It Was Just An Accident (2025) Dir. Jafar Panahi
neutral · AI labelView post →there's more competition now than there was in May, but I think Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident remains the movie of the year. in theaters now.
positive · AI labelView post →Locked in for It Was Just an Accident aaand first time at Film at Lincoln Center!
neutral · AI labelView post →Jafar Panahi & Martin Scorsese on It Was Just an Accident and Rebellious Filmmaking (NYFF via @filmlinc.bsky.social)
neutral · AI labelView post →IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, from Jafar Panahi. Interestingly shaggy movie about, of all things, vengeance. There were times when it dragged a little and maybe didn’t focus on the elements I found most interesting, but it’s a powerful story, well told.
neutral · AI labelView post →IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is a stunning movie. Brilliant, gorgeous, funny, terrifying, sad, furious, gentle, and humane. I finished it hours ago and can't stop thinking about it.
positive · AI labelView post →I was listening to a movie podcast today, and they were doing their best of 2025. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT came up, and one of the hosts described it as a "metaphor for different attitudes about revenge." I'm not sure how it can be a metaphor for the thing it is literally about.
neutral · AI labelView post →In my newsletter this week, I begged folks to check out a brave movie from a brave filmmaker: Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. I hope you can track it down or watch it once it hits video on demand. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-n...
positive · AI labelView post →I don’t think I’ve been rattled by a movie this year as I was by Jafar Panahi’s scorching, devastating IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. The ending truly shook me, physically. It’s a movie I will be thinking about for the rest of the year and beyond.
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