Tag: madjidpanahi
Playback: Jafar Panahi, Cinema Under Pressure, from THE WHITE BALLOON to IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Jafar Panahi makes films under immense pressure. The Iranian filmmaker's conditions of censorship and surveillance have become the grammar of his storytelling. Out of those limits, he's built one of the most radical bodies of work, where love for one's...
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Takes Justice for a Ride
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a political revenge thriller infused with absurdist comedy in his latest work, using the framework of post-authoritarian reckoning to examine the moral ambiguities of justice, memory, and collective trauma.
