It Was Just an Accident (Blu-Ray, #1317)

In this Palme dOr winner from the Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, a chance encounter sets in motion an urgent moral thriller. When a stranded driver (Ebrahim Azizi) walks into his shop, mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) believes he has come face-to-face with Eqbal, a notoriously brutal guard who tortured him during his political imprisonment. Gathering a band of fellow former inmates and other allies, Vahid sets out to take justice into his own handsbut does he have the right man? Shot in secret after Panahis longtime ban from filmmaking in his home country,It Was Just an Accidentis a tour de force of sustained tension and mordant humor, provocatively shifting perspectives to examine vital questions of trauma and revenge.

• New digital master, approved by director Jafar Panahi, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• New conversation between Panahi and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani