"For more than a decade, after the government of Iran deemed his work "propaganda against the system," the filmmaker Jafar Panahi was banned from making films or leaving the country. He spent some of that time in prison and under house arrest, but he still found ways to produce art-including the 2011 documentary This Is Not a Film,which was recorded in his Tehran apartment and smuggled into the Cannes film festival on a flash drive."
"A former political prisoner chances upon a man he suspects is the interrogator who tortured him in prison. (He was blindfolded at the time but thinks he recognizes the squeak of the man's artificial leg.) He takes the man hostage, then, panicking about his decision, gathers a group of former inmates."
Jafar Panahi endured a ban from filmmaking and travel after Iranian authorities labeled his work "propaganda against the system," spending periods in prison and under house arrest. He previously smuggled the 2011 documentary This Is Not a Film out of Tehran. After the ban lifted, he secretly shot It Was Just an Accident without an official permit and screened it at the New York Film Festival. The thriller follows a former political prisoner who seizes a man he suspects tortured him, prompting heated disputes among ex-inmates about identity, justice and what to do when they encounter the man's young daughter and pregnant wife. The project grew from seven months Panahi spent in Evin Prison during the 2022–23 "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests.
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