A man and his family accidentally run over a dog while driving through the Iranian countryside and are forced to find the nearest repair shop to fix their car. The seemingly random encounter with the people at the workshop triggers a dramatic chain of events that unravels a past far from buried.

No other filmmaker embodies the struggle for freedom of expression in cinema as powerfully as the Iranian master Jafar Panahi. With his latest Palme d’Or winner in Cannes, It Was Just an Accident, he has created an unforgettable road movie that, through a unique blend of human warmth, dark humor, subtle irony, and razor-sharp social critique, exposes the fractures within Iranian society — and the contradictions within ourselves — in a way that only he can.

– Daniel Tollefsen Altamirano