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Forthcoming films:
Sunday 24th May, 7pm
It Was Just an Accident (cert 12)
Iran 2025, 103 minutes: Directed by Jafar Panahi, Starring Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi
An unnamed man with a prosthetic leg accidentally hits and kills a dog one night while driving with his wife and daughter. He takes the car to a local mechanic, Vahid, to get it repaired. Vahid is an ethnic Azerbaijani; he has spent time in an Iranian prison where he was tortured by a man called Eghbal, who had a prosthetic leg that made a particular squeaking sound – just like the sound made by this customer. Convinced that the man is Eghbal, Vahid follows him, kidnaps him in his white van, and intends to bury him in the desert. But the man protests violently; can Vahid be sure of the man’s identity? He seeks the help of other people with a shared history of torture and interrogation at the hands of the regime. Shiva, a photographer working on wedding photographs and her customer, the groom Goli, and finally Hamid, Shiva’s former partner – all are almost certain, but before they exact revenge they insist on hearing a confession. Panahi’s bizarre, blackly comic and surreal road movie, with the drugged captive and a growing band of accusers, is an examination of state violence, revenge and the co-existence of tyranny and banal every day existence. A blistering, utterly distinctive, impassioned and critically important film from an auteur who – like his protagonists – has spent much of his career penalised, censored and incarcerated by the same brutal regime. Watch the trailer here.
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Friday 29th May, 8pm
Is this Thing On? (cert 15)
