IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Film Screening (ENG subs)
Sunday 28. December at 21:00 - 22:43
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Directed by Jafar Panahi | 2025 | Iran/France | 1h43m | Presented in the original Persian with English subtitles
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT has scooped just about every award on the film circuit so far, including the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. This is not a film any serious film lover should miss.
The story begins with an ordinary encounter and gradually transforms it into a moral pressure chamber. Jafar Panahi once again uses simplicity as a weapon, stripping cinema down to conversation, observation, and ethical consequence.
The film follows a man who believes he has unexpectedly encountered someone connected to his past imprisonment. Panahi builds tension not through action, but through decision. Each choice narrows the space for retreat. The question is not whether revenge is justified, but what certainty is required to act, and whether certainty is ever possible when memory is shaped by pain.
The film moves between realism and quiet irony. Conversations feel casual and the settings are familiar. Yet beneath this ordinariness lies a sharp political critique. Power operates invisibly. When justice is inaccessible, the temptation to take back control becomes overwhelming.
Panahi’s camera forces viewers to live with the same uncertainty the main character feels, and watch how fast the lines around morality and justice blur and get redrawn under pressure. The film exposes how systems of oppression push individuals toward impossible choices, then hold them responsible for the consequences.
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi.
How to find FOMO: Enter via Atoneli St above Carrefour. Take the stairs immediately on your left behind the jewellery stand. The cinema entrance is one flight up in the stairwell.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia