In the Golden Palm-winning film It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi interweaves personal experience with a bitterly comic, thriller-like narrative. A garage owner panics when a customer’s artificial leg reminds him of the man who once interrogated him in prison. Doubt and trauma lead to a chaotic search for truth and revenge, dragging a group of ex-convicts along with him. Made with minimal resources and outside Iranian censorship, It Was Just an Accident is a sharp, vulnerable and unexpectedly humorous portrait of a country that continues to struggle with freedom and fear.