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It Was Just An Accident
Linenhall Film Club
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
8pm
Tickets:
Full €7
Concession €5
Linenhall Film Club Season Ticket - €36
Contact Box Office for bookings: 094 9023733
(9 Films Spring Programme 2026)
When a man and his family hit a dog with their car, they have no idea about the unexpected chain of events this accident will set in motion. Stopping at a garage to have their car repaired, they meet mechanic Vahid. Recognising the man, Vahid is shaken-believing him to be his torturer from his time in an Iranian prison.The following day, Vahid kidnaps the man, intending to exact his vengeance. But as doubts start to creep in, he turns to a loose circle of other victims for confirmation. As they deal with their past and diverging worldviews, the group struggles to decide:is this definitely their torturer? What would retribution actually mean, and can they carry it out?
Film info
Iran, France, Luxembourg, USA, 2025
105 minutes
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi
Language: Persian (with English dialogue subtitles)
★★★★ It’s another very impressive serio-comic film from one of the most distinctive and courageous figures in world cinema
Panahi melds the personal and political in the most subtle and searing of ways.
There’s a seam of pitch black gallows humour running through the picture, and moments of absurdist hilarity. But mostly, it’s an impassioned and forthright condemnation of the regime and of the men who do its bidding
