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- Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi
- December 5th 2025
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- Jafar Panahi
Vahid and fellow former political prisoners try to figure out if they’ve found their tormentor and what to do with him.
Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival for It Was Just An Accident earlier this year and it is emerging as the top contender for the Best International Feature Film Oscar.
The story follows mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) after he crosses paths with a man with a prosthetic leg.
He believes the man to be “Eqbal the Peg Leg”, a guard who interrogated and tortured him while he was in an Iranian prison.
However, Vahid was blindfolded for all of his encounters with his tormentor behind bars, so all he has to go on is his voice and the sound of his prosthetic leg hitting the floor when he walks.
Initially confident, Vahid kidnaps Eqbal (Ebrahim Azizi) and starts to bury him alive in the desert. But when the man insists he is not Eqbal, Vahid starts to have doubts. Has he got the right man?
He decides he needs confirmation before he can proceed, so he puts Eqbal in a box in the...
