The Palme d’Or 2025 finally reveals its trailer: a simple accident
The film by Iranian director Jafar Pahani caused a sensation on the Croisette last May.
It was one of the strongest moments of the last Cannes festival last May: the Palme d’Or returned to A simple accidentthe new film by Jafar Panahi, and the trailer is now online.
Turned after his seven months in prison between 2022 and 2023, in Iran, A simple accident Marked the filmmaker’s return to Cannes, where he had not been able to go for twenty-two years. The Iranian director stayed on stage for a long time after the screening to deliver a sober but burning speech: “The most important thing is our country and the freedom of our country. Let us arrive at this moment, together, where no one dares to say what we have to wear, what we have to do or not.”
In A simple accidenthe recounts the suffering of the victims of the Iranian regime, in a chronicle doped with black humor. “”Iran, nowadays. A man chance crosses the one he believes to be his former torturer. But faced with this father who fiercely denies having been his executioner, doubt settles“Writes the synopsis.
In the casting, we follow Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Georges Hashemzadeh, Delmaz Najafi, Afssaneh Najmabadi
Palme d’Or obliges, the eagerly awaited French release, initially scheduled for September 10, was finally postponed on October 1, 2025.
Look at the trailer:
