NEON’s Oscar nominated Iranian thriller IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is set to make its SVOD debut early next month, arriving on March 1st, 2026. The film world premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or, and launched in US theaters on October 15th, 2025. It hit VOD and digital platforms on December 16th, 2026.
It Was Just an Accident was written and directed by Jafar Panahi, and stars, Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Georges Hashemzadeh, Delmaz Najafi, and Afssaneh Najmabadi.
In the film, Vahid, an Azerbaijani auto mechanic, was once imprisoned by Iranian authorities. During his sentence, he was interrogated blindfolded. One day, a man named Eghbal enters his workshop. His prosthetic leg creaks, and Vahid thinks he recognizes one of his former torturers.
In addition to winning the Palme d’Or, the film became the first Iranian film to be nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
At the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best International Feature Film (France) and Best Original Screenplay.
We’ve added the release date to our Streaming Calendar. Buy or rent the film from Amazon below, and check out the official US trailer.
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