Master filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident is a powerful work that confronts humanity head-on amid uncertain truths and moral confusion. It’s the winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. One night, a man driving with his heavily pregnant wife and young daughter hits a dog. Soon after, his car develops a fault, forcing him to pull into a strange repair shop. Hearing the sound of the man’s prosthetic leg, mechanic Vahid becomes convinced that he is the intelligence officer who once tortured him and proceeds to abduct him. But Vahid’s certainty soon gives way to doubt, and in order to confirm the prisoner’s identity, he seeks help from other victims. These are ordinary citizens who were wrongfully abducted and imprisoned, but as all of them had been blindfolded during their torture, none can say for certain who the man is. In the depths of trauma, where victims turn into perpetrators, the line between justice and revenge collapses, and emotions spiral to the extreme. (PARK Sungho)