Event time:
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 - 7:30pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06520
Event description:
The Council on Middle East Studies presents an advance film screening.
“It Was Just An Accident.”
A cutting and darkly humorous thriller that concerns a mechanic, Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), who believes he has reencountered by chance the government intelligence officer, Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi), who had tortured him while under detainment. As Vahid enlists the services of acquaintances whose lives were also forever altered by Eghbal’s cruelties, the thirst for revenge and the sense of danger escalate—as do questions of moral choice and culpability.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes festival!
Admission:
Free
Open to:
General Public