Movie Club Cinephile Preview: It Was Just An Accident

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and freshly nominated for four Golden Globes, be one of the first to witness master filmmaker Jafar Panahi's searing moral thriller, It Was Just An Accident, at our Movie Club Cinephile Preview.

Blending gripping suspense and dark humour with piercing political inquiry, It Was Just An Accident marks a powerful return from Jafar Panahi.

The film follows Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), an unassuming mechanic who has a chance encounter with Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi), a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Haunted by uncertainty and fear of being mistaken, Vahid enlists several fellow former political prisoners, each bearing their own scars from the same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity.

As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor. What begins as a quest for truth becomes a harrowing and savagely comedic confrontation with conscience, forcing the group to reckon with the cost of vengeance and the possibility of mercy.

With complex ideas about the fragility of facts and the weight of moral choice, Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art.

EVENT DETAILS:
Tuesday, January 20 | 6:30pm Film

GENERAL PRICING:
Palace Movie Club (max 2): $16
Palace Golden Club (max 2): $12

Please see the following page for previews in Brisbane.