It Was Just an Accident | Nerve Cinema
Date: 18 February 2026
Venue: Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry~Londonderry, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6HJ
Winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and selected as France's submission for the forthcoming Oscars®, Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi's It Was Just An Accident is both a spiky morality tale and nail-biting thriller.
Filmed in secret (following Panahi's censorship and imprisonment at the hands of the Iranian government), this intensely gripping and darkly comic exploration of the fine line between justice and vengeance retains the dramatic potency of his very best work.
What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences. Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), an Azerbaijani auto mechanic, was once imprisoned by Iranian authorities. During his sentence, he was interrogated while blindfolded. One day, a man named Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi) enters his workshop. His prosthetic leg creaks, and Vahid thinks he recognises one of his former torturers.
Jafar Panahi | Iran, France, Luxembourg | 2025 | 102 mins | Subtitled | 12A