He's off on a road tour! The best-in-the-biz indie distributor Neon has just announced that they're taking award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on a tour around the US for Q&As for his new film titled It Was Just an Accident (watch the trailer) - which already began its run in limited theaters in October. Check your local listings. Most cinephiles already know that Panahi won the coveted Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for this film, which is about a group of Iranian people seeking revenge on a man they believe is their torturer from the time they were kept in prison by Iran's authoritarian regime. It's "a deeply felt moral thriller, where high stakes tension combines with unexpected flurries of humor and thoughtful, sometimes devastating questions regarding persecution & revenge." Neon has revealed that Panahi will tour with It Was Just an Accident to 7 cities in late November: mainly in NY, CA, WA, MA, IL. He will also make "a new short film to document his journey" while on the road. Panahai was imprisoned by Iran in 2010 for making films and then again in 2022 – and was barely released in 2023 before he went on to make this film. // Continue Reading ›