It Was Just an Accident
- Thu, Feb 5
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Post-screening discussion with A.S. Hamrah, film critic & Josh Sperling, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media and Creative Media Director for Arts and Sciences at Oberlin College
Director: Jafar Panahi Run Time: 104 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Persian (Farsi)
Starring: Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mariam Afshari, Vahid Mobasseri
Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that 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. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi (No Bears, Crimson Gold) comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art. Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. France’s Official Submission to the 98th Academy Awards.
Post-screening discussion with A. S. Hamrah, the film critic for n+1 and author of The Earth Dies Streaming.
We’re excited to hos film critic A.S. Hamrah for a discussion of his two new books – Last Week in End Times Cinema (Semiotexte), the collection of his newsletter, and Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025 (n + 1). The conversation will also include Josh Sperling, Oberlin College Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media and Creative Media Director for Arts and Sciences, whose review of Hamrah’s books will be published in the Cleveland Review of Books, our partner for the event.
Get your books at Mac’s Backs before the event if you’d like to read ahead, or you can get them at our lobby before/after the screening. We will also screen Panahi’s The Circle as Hamrah’s pick for the night.